Each fall, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz co-teaches a seminar for graduate students – professors of the future – called ‘The American Professoriate.’ The class focuses on the role of public universities. This year, he teaches with Matt Springer and Buck Goldstein from the School of Education and Dean Suzanne Barbour of the Graduate… READ MORE
Our hopes for 2022
RALEIGH (January 6, 2022) – North Carolina heaved a collective sigh of relief in 2021 with approval of the first state budget in three years. But enormous issues remain to be resolved in 2022. We hope, of course, that we at least reach sufficient herd immunity and vaccines for North Carolinians to live with the… READ MORE
2021: Return to not quite normal
RALEIGH (December 29, 2021) – 2021 was slightly less chaotic than 2020, with distribution of vaccines that temporarily calmed the coronavirus pandemic before new variants began to emerge. The state also saw its first new budget in three years, with much-needed raises for higher education faculty and staff and generous investments in capital projects. It’s… READ MORE
Cindy Elmore: A class of ping-pong balls
By Cindy Elmore GREENVILLE (December 17, 2021) – I remember looking with horror at my county’s vaccination rate in August when we were about to go back to teaching in-person classes at East Carolina University. Forty-three percent. Surely the rate on my campus will be better than that, I thought. It was, but not by… READ MORE
Wiles: Merger will not improve community colleges
By Paul Wiles WINSTON-SALEM (December 15, 2021) – Sometimes things that sound the same are not really the same at all. I would argue that when you think of higher education, you might assume that college is college, and you might not readily see the differences between community colleges and universities. Both systems offer access… READ MORE
Art Padilla: On moving the UNC headquarters
By Dr. Art Padilla RALEIGH (December 1, 2021) – Without much discussion, even within the UNC Board of Governors itself, the NC Legislature seems intent on moving the headquarters of the 17-campus University of North Carolina from where it has resided for the last half century, Chapel Hill. The idea is to relocate it to… READ MORE
Protest long a part of campus life
Each fall, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz co-teaches a seminar for graduate students – professors of the future – called ‘The American Professoriate.’ The class focuses on the role of public universities. This year, he teaches with Matt Springer and Buck Goldstein from the School of Education and Dean Suzanne Barbour of the Graduate… READ MORE
Guskiewicz: Steering a $3B engine for NC
Each fall, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz co-teaches a seminar for graduate students – professors of the future – called ‘The American Professoriate.’ The class focuses on the role of public universities. This year, he teaches with Matt Springer and Buck Goldstein from the School of Education and Dean Suzanne Barbour of the Graduate… READ MORE
NC budget: ‘A remarkable start on a new era’
RALEIGH (November 18, 2021) – For the first time in three years, it looks like North Carolina will have a budget for 2021-23. After extended negotiations between Gov. Roy Cooper, Senate President Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore, the General Assembly is voting this week on a plan that would spend $25.9 billion in… READ MORE
Hans: ‘Multiple paths to success and respect’
RALEIGH (November 16, 2021) – Peter Hans is the seventh president of the University of North Carolina System. But he’s the first in his family to graduate from college. So as he was inaugurated Tuesday on the 50th anniversary of creation of the System, Hans, 51, stressed that the University must be open to a… READ MORE
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