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UNCG: 50% more nurses

July 3, 2024 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENSBORO (July 3, 2024) – It took three years, but we’re finally seeing progress to produce more nurses in North Carolina. Our Nursing Education series in 2021 pointed out that the primary bottleneck in North Carolina’s nursing shortage is a shortage of instructors – due to the simple financial arithmetic that they can make more… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2024, Nursing, UNC Greensboro

Gilliam: Scare tactics harm UNCG

October 25, 2023 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr.UNC Greensboro GREENSBORO (October 26, 2023) – In any industry, companies review their product or service and make necessary adjustments based on market demand, relevance, quality, and so on.  However, higher education is unique. When reviewing our academic portfolio, UNC Greensboro considers factors such as student success and graduation, scholarly and… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, UNC Greensboro

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

Nursing Heroes: Toward the fire

July 30, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENSBORO (July 30, 2021) – We’ve heard stories about firefighters who run toward the fire rather than away from it. Well three UNC Greensboro nursing students did just that at the height of the coronavirus pandemic last year. In the accompanying video, UNCG Associate Dean of Nursing Heidi Krowchuk tells the stories of three graduate students… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Nursing, Nursing Series, UNC Greensboro

Nursing Heroes: ‘That nurse’

July 23, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENSBORO (July 23, 2021) – She is “that nurse” – the nurse with the sleeve of tattoos screening patients for COVID-19 outside UNC Hospitals whose photo went viral in March 2020. She is also Grace Cindric, a 2016 graduate of UNC Greensboro’s School of Nursing. And she is “one of our alums – a nurse… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Nursing, Nursing Series, UNC Greensboro

‘We have to compete’ for nursing faculty

July 21, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENSBORO (July 21, 2021) – Hiring and keeping nursing faculty isn’t a challenge just at community colleges. “One of the things that vexes us is that while there’s great student demand for spots in nursing schools, the supply of nursing faculty is actually quite constricted,” UNC Greensboro Chancellor Franklin Gilliam says in the accompanying video…. READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Nursing, Nursing Series, UNC Greensboro

UNCG: More nurses

July 14, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENSBORO (July14, 2021) – To examine how one state university is confronting North Carolina’s nursing shortage, we need to look back six years. “We’re turning away 140 qualified nursing students every year,” UNC Greensboro Chancellor Franklin Gilliam Jr. said in 2015. “Cone Health tells us we cannot produce nurses fast enough for them to hire…. READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Nursing, Nursing Series, UNC Greensboro

The cost of deferred maintenance at NC universities

June 3, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENSBORO – Not many donors want to put their name on an HVAC system. Yet sometimes those systems need to be replaced. And across the UNC System, postponed maintenance amounts to billions of dollars. “There’s deferred maintenance on all of our campuses,” UNC Greensboro Chancellor Frank Gilliam Jr. says in the accompanying video. Then Gilliam… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Budget, UNC Greensboro, UNC System

Kiwi banjo – with a touch of UNCG

October 23, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

GREENSBORO – North Carolinians might not think of New Zealand as a bluegrass hot spot. But that’s where UNC Greensboro-trained Catherine “BB” Bowness first picked up the banjo. And pandemic or not, Bowness the banjo player has been winning plenty of attention lately.  The International Bluegrass Music Association couldn’t hold its annual World of Bluegrass… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, UNC Greensboro

A message from UNCG’s chancellor

June 3, 2020 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff, To sustain our democracy, and enact our shared values of freedom, prosperity, equality, safety, and a brighter future for our children, we must solve our problems collaboratively. People are mistaken if they believe the outcry over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis is the singular cause of protests across… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Diversity, Systemic racism, UNC Greensboro

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