RALEIGH – It had nothing to do with the coronavirus, but the State Board of Community Colleges took an important step last week to expand North Carolina’s pipeline of future ...

GREENSBORO – When it became clear in early March that the UNC System and colleges across the country would shift classes online in response to the coronavirus, Roy Schwartzman knew ...

RALEIGH – At the very time thousands of businesses have ordered layoffs in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the leaders of Bandwidth Inc. on NC State University’s Centennial Campus did ...

Tezeta Tamrat is a second-year adviser serving with the Davidson College Advising Corps at Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. By Tezeta TamratCollege Advising Corps “Congratulations, Tezeta, you’ve been selected to ...

Thousands upon thousands of gloves, masks and face shields from nursing, respiratory therapy and even cosmetology programs. Disaster loan applications.  WiFi hot spots in parking lots. Tablets and laptops for students who ...

SHELBY – The shift to online classes has revealed anew North Carolina’s digital divide.1  So, because North Carolina community colleges also tend to have plenty of parking lots that can accommodate ...

CHAPEL HILL – ‘Disruptive’ can be a loaded term. But if anything’s been disruptive to higher education – in North Carolina and around the world – it’s the coronavirus. Jim Ptaszynski, ...

CHAPEL HILL – When word came that UNC-Chapel Hill would move all classes online due to the coronavirus, Associate Professor Steven King didn’t hesitate. King shipped virtual-reality headsets to the 28 ...

By Buck Goldstein If you’d asked me a month ago what it would take to get all faculty on my campus teaching an online course, I would have glibly answered, “An ...

CHAPEL HILL – At the beginning of the 2019-20 academic year on University of North Carolina campuses, few would have predicted the year would end in a global pandemic. Yet here ...