By Buck Goldstein The need to explain academic tenure, often characterized as lifelong employment, never seems to go away. But recently, as American higher education comes under unprecedented attack, friends and colleagues ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works PHOENIX, AZ (October 23, 2025) – Arizona public education advocates say their state is grappling with the fallout from a voucher program without income limits – ...

By Art Padilla WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (October 23, 2025) – The mess at Carolina’s new School for Civic Life and Leadership goes on. And on. The creation of the new school is an ...

RALEIGH (October 15, 2025) – State legislators are due back in Raleigh Monday. And more than three months into the state’s budget year, they have yet to fulfill one of ...

RALEIGH (October 15, 2025) – Public Ed Works recently published the “Lessons Learned Series.” It is a series of stories exploring how legislative decisions — both active and passive — over ...

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 ...