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UNC Asheville makes hustle plays to reopen

January 16, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Eric Johnson ASHEVILLE (January 16, 2025) – On Wednesday afternoon, after more than three months of empty classrooms, UNC Asheville celebrated an extraordinary return for the spring semester. Over a welcome-back dinner of tacos and nachos inside Kimmel Arena, faculty, staff, and students greeted one another, swapped harrowing stories, and settled in to watch… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, UNC Asheville

Van Noort named Chancellor at UNC Asheville

November 29, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (November 29, 2023) – The new Chancellor of UNC Asheville will be no stranger to the UNC System Office. In a special meeting today, System President Peter Hans and the UNC Board of Governors named Kimberly van Noort, an experienced administrator who previously worked in the System Office, as UNC Asheville’s new chancellor. Van… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, UNC Asheville

Budget highlights – and lowlights

September 22, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (September 22, 2023) – To win Medicaid expansion he has sought since he was elected, Gov. Roy Cooper agreed to make it contingent on passage of the state budget. So Republican legislators packed a whole lot of policy into the 1,400-page 2023-25 budget for Cooper to swallow. Here are some highlights – and lowlights. … READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Appalachian State, Budget, ECU, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina A&T, UNC Asheville, UNC Greensboro, UNC Pembroke, Winston-Salem State University

New beginnings for the Class of 2021

May 19, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

To commence means to begin. And after weathering a worldwide pandemic, commencement for the Class of 2021 indeed felt like a new beginning for thousands of UNC System graduates. AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL, Dr. Anthony Fauci and UNC alum Kizzmekia Corbett spoke to graduates and received honorary degrees.  Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, ECU, NCCU, NCSU, UNC Asheville, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC System

Small UNC System campuses keep COVID in check

October 7, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

(Oct. 6, 2020) – Let’s hear it for the little guys. As several of the UNC System’s largest institutions were forced to quickly shift classes online as the coronavirus erupted on their campuses, many of the System’s smaller institutions – including its Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) – have managed to keep the virus… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, HBCU, NCCU, North Carolina A&T, UNC Asheville, UNC Pembroke, UNC System, Western Carolina University, Winston-Salem State University

Recent grads urge students to ‘Embrace the Weirdness’

August 12, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – Three recent graduates of UNC System schools urge students to “Embrace the Weirdness” and abide by community standard during the pandemic in a lively video produced as a public service announcement. Graduates Annalee Banks of Western Carolina University, Liz Chung of UNC Asheville and Najawa Huntley of N.C. A&T State University worked… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, HBCU, North Carolina A&T, UNC Asheville, UNC System, Western Carolina University

UNC Asheville Chancellor: ‘We can do this’

June 17, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

ASHEVILLE – Students and parents want to come back. Faculty and staff want to get back to work. And Western North Carolina’s economy needs it. So with pages and pages of health procedures in place to respond to any number of potential scenarios, “We believe we can do this,” UNC Asheville Chancellor Nancy J. Cable… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, UNC Asheville

UNC Asheville helps build broadband in the West

June 17, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

ASHEVILLE – The COVID-19 shutdown revealed glaring gaps in high-speed internet access, especially among rural and minority communities, for both college and K-12 students. And in North Carolina’s mountains, the terrain makes access that much more a challenge. “Inequities in our community relative to broadband are significant,” UNC Asheville Chancellor Nancy J. Cable says in… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, UNC Asheville

Learning how to learn at UNC Asheville

September 3, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

ASHEVILLE – With the big emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math these days, Nancy J. Cable hears the question all the time: Why should my child attend a liberal-arts school? But the Chancellor of UNC Asheville insists the liberal arts and sciences remain the best route for students in today’s rapidly changing world –… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Excellence, UNC Asheville

The draw of UNC Asheville

August 7, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

ASHEVILLE – Nancy J. Cable suspected she’d like being UNC Asheville’s chancellor.  But it’s even better than she thought. “This is a gem within the UNC System, and it’s been known a long time as a gem,” Cable says in the accompanying video, citing UNC Asheville’s strength in academics and the humanities in particular. The… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Adult Learners, UNC Asheville

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