- Defending a liberal education from ourselvesIn Defense of a Liberal Education. By Fareed Zakaria. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. By Eric Johnson At first blush, Fareed Zakaria seems an odd champion of the ever-beleaguered liberal arts. ...Read more
- Legislators, college leaders warn of challenges for NC higher educationRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The state’s top college and university leaders, along with elected officials on both sides of the aisle, took the stage Wednesday night to affirm higher education’s ...Read more
- McCrory bond proposal: A good startIt’s a good start. Gov. Pat McCrory unveiled a proposal last week for $3 billion in bonds – $1.5 billion for highways and $1.5 billion for infrastructure, including $500 million for ...Read more
- Ralls “a tireless advocate”By Gary M. Green President, Forsyth Technical Community College WINSTON-SALEM – In 2008, North Carolina, and the entire country, entered the most difficult economic period since the Great Depression. The colleges of ...Read more
- “One of the most visionary and effective community-college leaders in the country.”BOONE – With word that NC Community College System President Scott Ralls will leave his post next fall to head a 75,000-student college in Virginia, the system’s former president says ...Read more
- Service to the State: University engagement, by the numbersIn the past year, North Carolina’s public colleges and universities interacted with more than 6 million North Carolinians, reaching far beyond the 220,000 students enrolled in full-time studies. That’s because ...Read more
- What’s in it for me?As tuition continues to rise at our state’s public colleges and universities, questions persist about whether college is worth it. But a recent study answers those questions with an emphatic and ...Read more
- N&O: Higher Education Works seeks to preserve NC’s brandBy Rob Christensen, The News & Observer Paul Fulton of Winston-Salem is a throwback to the era when most of North Carolina’s captains of industry were home grown and deeply involved in ...Read more
- Campus Climate Change at UNCBy James Moeser, Chancellor Emeritus, UNC Chapel Hill I came to North Carolina in 2000 to be the ninth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Unlike most of ...Read more
- NC A&T attacks serious health threat with allergen-reduced peanutGREENSBORO – With 2.8 million Americans – many of them children – affected by peanut allergies, researchers at N.C. A&T State University have attacked a serious health threat and moved ...Read more