DURHAM – A century ago, part of downtown Durham was known as “the Black Wall Street” because of the economic energy generated by companies like North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance ...

GREENSBORO – At a retreat last week of the Board of Governors that oversees the University of North Carolina system, President-Elect Margaret Spellings laid out her vision for the university ...

At the request of University of North Carolina President-Elect Margaret Spellings, the university system hired The Boston Consulting Group to conduct an organizational assessment. After interviews with 140 stakeholders across the ...

FAYETTEVILLE – The Lyons Science Complex at Fayetteville State University was built in 1981, the same year IBM introduced its first personal computer. That PC weighed 28 lbs — without ...

Margaret Spellings, who will assume office March 1 as President of the University of North Carolina System, wrote the following essay for The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the ...

RALEIGH – With global population swelling and farm acreage shrinking, agriculture faces enormous challenges to feed and clothe the human race in coming decades. Increasingly, the answers to those challenges will ...

WINSTON-SALEM – African-Americans account for 12% of the U.S. population, yet only 5% of the people who work in science and engineering.1 Winston-Salem State University intends to do something about that ...

CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina is now the nation’s 9th-most populous state – and more people need more doctors. One-third of the state’s physicians are expected to retire in the next ...

Fifteen years have passed since North Carolinians overwhelmingly approved $3.1 billion in higher-education bonds in 2000. With support from 70 percent of voters and a majority in all 100 North Carolina ...

CHAPEL HILL (January 15, 2016) – At a statewide gathering of university faculty, Higher Education Works Executive Director David Rice said the public too often misses the link between reductions ...