By Tom Campbell RALEIGH (October 8, 2025) – Folks in higher education must feel like General Custer at Little Big Horn: fired at from almost every angle. Higher education hasn’t faced ...

By Kate Denning Carolina Public Press DURHAM (October 1, 2025) – The University of North Carolina System reported record enrollment numbers overall. Year-over-year increases occurred at 15 of its 16 higher education ...

RALEIGH (October 1, 2025) – In an era where meddlesome legislators and governing boards try to dictate what professors should teach, 11 history professors at UNC-Chapel Hill took a mandate ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (October 2, 2025) – Over the past several weeks we’ve looked at a range of issues in North Carolina’s public schools, but one theme stands ...

By Peter Hans President, UNC System RALEIGH (October 2, 2025) – North Carolina needs more nurses, and the state’s public universities are stepping up to make it happen. Earlier this week, I visited ...

By Eric Johnson ASHEVILLE (September 26, 2025) – Public universities are equal parts classroom and toolkit. They teach the next generation of students, and they also serve as huge repositories of ...

ASHEVILLE (September 26, 2025) – The one word people repeated over and over was ‘community.’ A three-day symposium last week organized by UNC Asheville faculty to mark the one-year anniversary of ...

By Kate Denning Carolina Public Press ASHEVILLE (September 23, 2025) – Buncombe County Schools Superintendent Rob Jackson and Mars Hill University President Tony Floyd both used the same phrase to describe their ...

HILLSBOROUGH (September 22, 2025) – UNC-Chapel Hill’s former provost sued the university’s Board of Trustees Monday, saying the board repeatedly violated state open meetings and public records laws – and ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works (RALEIGH) – While North Carolina school systems are grappling with underfunding, corporations and millionaires are paying less and less taxes. Corporate tax rates were reduced from a ...