By Paul Fulton Chair, Public Ed Works RALEIGH (December 5, 2024) – Once upon a time, North Carolina was a leader in public education. The president of the state Chamber of Commerce was also the chair of the State Board of Education. Average teacher pay in North Carolina ranked 19th in the nation in 2001.1… READ MORE
Brad Wilson: A workforce pipeline
RALEIGH (April 4, 2024) – If you don’t see a connection between investment in public education and North Carolina’s economy, take it from someone who has. “Public education is critically important for workforce development,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC CEO Emeritus Brad Wilson says in the accompanying video. Wilson shares how he worked with… READ MORE
ROI study shows value of a UNC System degree
GREENSBORO (November 16, 2023) – If there’s any doubt about the value of a UNC System degree, a new study shows an incredible return on that investment. The $2 million study by Deloitte – ordered by the NC General Assembly in 2021 – found that out of 1,299 programs across the UNC System, 93% had… READ MORE
“Eastern North Carolina needs us”: The economic impact of ECU
By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – When it first opened in 1909, the new, two-year East Carolina Teachers Training School had a critical, if modest, goal: Train teachers for the classrooms of Eastern North Carolina. But then-former Governor Thomas Jordan Jarvis sensed even then that the tiny school might grow: “We can never… READ MORE
“Sticker girl”: The impact of ECU entrepreneurs
By Leslie Boney AYDEN (September 7, 2023) – Taylor Walden didn’t come to East Carolina University expecting to become an entrepreneur. Her family wanted her to go into health care, maybe nursing, and come back home to Winston-Salem after graduation. But early in her freshman year, people in her dorm started asking her to hand-letter… READ MORE
“We need to find a solution”: The impact of ECU research
By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson has made a discovery that could stop skin cancer in its tracks. The molecule she is developing in her lab at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University appears to be able to stop some melanoma cells from growing and to… READ MORE
“Lot of purple and gold here”: The impact of ECU’s rural docs
By Leslie Boney KENANSVILLE (September 7, 2023) – You could say Jon Kornegay was born to be a rural doctor. His father was a physician in a small town in Duplin County in Eastern North Carolina. His mother was a graduate of East Carolina University’s first nurse practitioner class in 1976. But it was his… READ MORE
Too narrow a view
RALEIGH (January 25, 2022) – Some folks measure the value of higher education solely by how much its graduates make. Most of us know there’s a lot more to it. In a column this week, John Hood of the John Locke Foundation contends that North Carolinians don’t receive an adequate return on what he calls… READ MORE
Woodson: Ripple effects
RALEIGH (March 11, 2022) – The 2.1 billion dollars NC State University raised for its endowment don’t help just NC State – they help North Carolina’s entire economy. “They have a tremendous impact on the economy,” Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video, “by providing the critical workforce for the economy, by funding the… READ MORE
Higher ed must get better at second chances
By Eric Johnson North Carolina is entering a strange economic moment. Less than a year after the sharpest recession in modern history, the state is poised for a booming recovery. After peaking at 13.5% in May of last year, state unemployment now stands at 5.2%. But that’s not the whole story. There are two ways… READ MORE
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