- Let’s sustain NC’s lead in higher educationLike other students across the country, students at North Carolina’s public universities have seen state support reduced and tuition increase since the Great Recession. Yet because of North Carolina’s tradition of ...Read more
- A continuing retreatRALEIGH – North Carolina’s public universities are obliged to cut $62.8 million this year. That’s what lawmakers required in the state budget signed into law this month.1 It’s not a devastating ...Read more
- Be a butterfly at WesternCULLOWHEE – For Dr. Carmen Huffman, the chemistry lab never stands still. “Each student has unique strengths and weaknesses, and I love working with them on their own personal journeys of ...Read more
- Farewell to a great friendRICHMOND – Higher education lost a great friend July 11 with the death of William Johnston “Billy” Armfield IV, after a brief illness. Armfield, 81, was a 1956 graduate of the ...Read more
- Success story at WSSUWINSTON-SALEM – When state legislators proposed this summer to offer tuition of $500 a semester at five state universities, they said they targeted schools with falling enrollment, suggesting those schools ...Read more
- Third class of Wilson Scholars heads for AppalachianBOONE – Appalachian State University will welcome six students this fall as the third class to receive the Wilson Scholarship, the university’s most prestigious merit scholarship. The scholarships were established in ...Read more
- ‘One of the most honorable and humbling professions’DURHAM – Dr. Peggy Whiting calls teaching “one of the most honorable and humbling professions.”1 Which makes it especially fitting that she was honored and humbled this year to receive the ...Read more
- 2016 General Assembly took a passRALEIGH – With the 2016 session of the General Assembly now over, it’s clear legislators largely took a pass on urgent issues facing higher education in North Carolina: Fixing HB2 ...Read more
- Teaching from the headlines at Fayetteville StateFAYETTEVILLE – Heather Griffiths almost missed out on becoming a professor. “I worked two or three jobs at a time to pay for college,” she recalled in an interview this year. ...Read more
- Faculty raises welcome, but won’t stem poachingRALEIGH (June 29, 2016) – The $22.3 billion budget for 2016-17 that state legislators are moving to approve this week offers stable funding for state universities and community colleges, but ...Read more