- Ingram and Perry: We all need to support Margaret SpellingsBy ROBERT INGRAM and ROGER PERRY DURHAM – As we embark on the recruitment of Amazon, it’s important to remember an important history lesson. There’s no question our local universities played a ...Read more
- A burgeoning university for a burgeoning cityCHARLOTTE – A burgeoning city demands a burgeoning university – and North Carolina’s largest city has one. “From the beginning, going all the way back to our founding in 1946 … ...Read more
- Fastest-growing UNC campusCHARLOTTE – The fastest-growing campus in the UNC System has energy. But with that growth come challenges. “We have gained about 4,600 students since 2009,” UNC Charlotte Chancellor Philip Dubois says ...Read more
- 49er Finish: 93% completionCHARLOTTE – Not everyone takes a straight-line path to a college degree. At the ‘Aim Higher, Achieve More’ forum hosted recently by the Higher Education Works Foundation, UNC System President Margaret ...Read more
- Spellings: Education is both a private and a public goodCHARLOTTE (Oct. 4, 2017) – Sure, higher education benefits the student who earns a diploma. But it also helps the rest of us. “It’s also a public good,” Margaret Spellings, President of ...Read more
- Gage and Eshelman: Spellings deserves ‘full-throated support’By Hannah Gage and Fred Eshelman The importance to North Carolina of a world-class university system cannot be stressed enough. Our state’s reputation — our ability to attract new jobs and ...Read more
- A long-term approach on teacher pay, preparationCHARLOTTE (Oct. 4, 2017) – North Carolina has made efforts in recent years to raise teacher pay from a low of 47th in the nation in 2013-14.1 Yet enrollment in the ...Read more
- Spellings: ‘I just have real belief in DACA students’CHARLOTTE (Oct. 4, 2017) – In response to a student’s pointed question about making education affordable for immigrant students, UNC President Margaret Spellings reaffirms her support for so-called ‘Dreamers’ who ...Read more
- Why the skepticism about higher education?CHARLOTTE (Oct. 4, 2017) – We’ve all sensed it – a growing divide in views of higher education. A Pew Research Center survey in June revealed that 58% of Republican and ...Read more
- Aim higher, achieve moreCHARLOTTE (Oct. 4, 2017) – In a wide-ranging discussion, North Carolina’s political and higher education leaders shared their thoughts last week on how we can educate more North Carolinians for ...Read more