- NCCCS President Cox: ‘That’s what community colleges do, folks’RALEIGH (April 24, 2023) – For the new president of North Carolina’s Community College System, community colleges are about meeting employers’ needs. But most important of all, they’re about economic ...Read more
- Playing catch-up on starting teacher pay – with Alabama?RALEIGH (April 26, 2023) – School started in North Carolina this year with more than 5,000 teacher vacancies in K-12 public schools. So North Carolina is allegedly worried about recruiting more ...Read more
- Peter Hans on diversity and free expressionEditor’s Note: UNC System President Peter Hans delivered these remarks as his President’s Report to the UNC Board of Governors at the board’s meeting at UNC-Pembroke last week. They have ...Read more
- Lawmakers nibble, nibble, nibble at governor’s powersRALEIGH (April 20, 2023) – Since colonial days, North Carolina has always had weak governors – call it lingering distrust of the King’s colonial toadies. And my, has it lingered – ...Read more
- Study: UNC System athletics have $1.1B impactPEMBROKE (April 19, 2022) – They’re known as the front porch of the university. But they’re also big business. Athletics across the University of North Carolina System generate a total economic ...Read more
- A nurse’s nurse: UNCP’s Beasley honored for public servicePEMBROKE (April 20, 2023) – At a time when North Carolina is struggling to solve its shortage of nurses, it’s fitting that the UNC Board of Governors chose to honor ...Read more
- CEOs: Solve NC teacher shortage to build better readersRALEIGH (April 11, 2023) – Business leaders delivered a twofold message to state politicians Tuesday: North Carolina must expand its Pre-K program to build reading skills by 3rd grade. But ...Read more
- The game just changed. Or did it?RALEIGH (April 6, 2023) – The game just changed. Or did it? The elections last fall gave Republicans a veto-proof majority in the state Senate, but left them one vote shy ...Read more
- NC House seeks to increase nurses, instructorsRALEIGH (April 6, 2023) – There’s no shortage of people who want to be nurses. But there is a shortage of people to turn them into nurses – and as ...Read more
- House budget: Raises for teachers, but we can do betterRALEIGH (March 30, 2023) – The 2023-25 state budget rolled out this week by Republicans in the state House makes steps in the right direction on a number of fronts, ...Read more