CHAPEL HILL – Check this on your smartphone: In the past 30 years, we’ve seen technological innovations we never could have dreamed of in health care, communications and any number of fields. “That’s all given us by research,” Interim UNC System President William L. Roper says in the accompanying video. “And we, the University of… READ MORE
Roper on containing higher ed costs
CHAPEL HILL – Interim UNC System President William Roper knows our state’s public universities have endured budget cuts. But he also knows great organizations constantly look for ways to improve efficiency. “Higher education is expensive,” Roper says in the accompanying video. “If we were to create a great university today from scratch, I don’t think… READ MORE
NCSU to use tiniest organisms to improve yields, reduce chemicals
RALEIGH – In a search for solutions to some of the world’s biggest agricultural challenges, a team of researchers from NC State University and three Danish universities will look to the tiniest of organisms. To raise yields to feed a fast-growing world population, they want to find ways to harness microbes that live on, in or… READ MORE
Flat state support for NC’s public universities
RALEIGH – As it has since 2011-12, state investment in North Carolina’s public university students remained flat last year – and still almost $2,200 a student less than before the Great Recession. State support for the University of North Carolina System shrank from about $12,600 per student before the recession to about $10,400 in 2017-18… READ MORE
Community Colleges: When graduates make as much as instructors…
RALEIGH – Community colleges are critically important to North Carolina’s workforce. At a time when 67 percent of jobs in North Carolina are projected to require education beyond high school by 2020,1 community colleges offer a more-affordable path to a degree, job-specific training and training for the trades. And North Carolinians love their community colleges… READ MORE
Where We Stand – Pre-K: Prime those 4-year-olds to learn
RALEIGH (June 12, 2019) – We’re finally starting to get it: Improved student performance starts well before kindergarten. And that means getting more 4-year-olds into high-quality pre-kindergarten. Recent research indicates that the benefits of quality Pre-K prepare a child for academic success at least through eighth grade. For several years now, academics and business executives alike… READ MORE
NC teacher pay: Keep going
RALEIGH – We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Teacher pay in North Carolina is headed in the right direction. The National Education Association released estimates in March that indicate average pay for North Carolina’s K-12 public school teachers now stands at $53,975, ranking North Carolina 29th among the states.1 That’s an increase… READ MORE
An underwhelming Senate budget
RALEIGH – At a time when demands for an educated workforce are only growing, the proposed 2019-21 budget the state Senate adopted last week reaffirms the Senate’s tendency to under invest in higher education. Senate leaders made great fanfare out of giving state employees a 5% raise over two years – yet inexplicably, they left out… READ MORE
The stakes are too high
By Emma Singletary BattlePresident/CEO, Higher Ed Works In a recent column titled “North Carolina ranks high in college funding,” John Hood reminds us that the N.C. Constitution requires that the benefits of our public colleges and universities “as far as practicable, be extended to the people of the state free of expense.” Hood acknowledges that between 2008 and 2018,… READ MORE
UNC System alumni: Oh so worth it
CHAPEL HILL (May 21, 2019) – Graduates of the University of North Carolina System are much more likely than other college alumni to appreciate and promote their schools, according to a survey of 77,695 alumni that Gallup conducted for the system. The UNC System’s strategic plan calls on university officials to collect data on graduates’… READ MORE
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