RALEIGH – Perhaps it’s appropriate the 2019 General Assembly adjourned on Halloween, because the inability of the legislature and the governor to come to terms on a budget for the ...

Frances Beroset is a first-year adviser serving with the Duke College Advising Corps at Southern Lee High School in Lee County. By Frances BerosetCollege Advising Corps I once spoke to a woman ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Some North Carolinians aren’t familiar with our state’s Historically Minority-Serving Institutions (HMSIs) – but HMSIs are taking on growing importance in efforts to build an educated ...

Student debt is on the rise, both in North Carolina and across the nation. More than 45 million Americans now owe a collective $1.6 trillion.1  Once upon a time, North Carolina ...

CHAPEL HILL – When Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz looks at the stone walls that surround UNC Chapel Hill’s campus, he doesn’t see barriers. He sees something easy to climb. Sure, there are ...

By Andrew J. Perrin As students settle into college this fall, they’re likely to hear one question over and over again: What’s your major? The honest answer should be “I don’t ...

CHAPEL HILL – With the resignation of Harry Smith as Chair of the UNC Board of Governors, we have yet another in a series of leadership changes across the University of ...

Whether it’s U.S. News & World Report or The Wall Street Journal doing the rankings, it’s clear North Carolina is blessed with an abundance of highly rated colleges and universities, both ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Together, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State University, Duke University and RTI International do $3.5 billion worth of research every year. “The opportunity that’s available to the four entities ...

CHAPEL HILL – It was during a visit to UNC-Chapel Hill during his senior year in high school that it started to sink in with Nestor Ramirez. “It was like, ‘Here’s ...