Margaret Spellings, who will assume office March 1 as President of the University of North Carolina System, wrote the following essay for The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute. It is republished here with permission from the George W. Bush Institute. President Bush often reminds us that to whom much is given… READ MORE
NCSU labs to be “transformational” for students, farms, economy
RALEIGH – With global population swelling and farm acreage shrinking, agriculture faces enormous challenges to feed and clothe the human race in coming decades. Increasingly, the answers to those challenges will be found in laboratories. And NC State University aims to revolutionize modern agriculture for both North Carolina and the world with its Plant Sciences… READ MORE
WSSU poised to increase pipeline of minority scientists
WINSTON-SALEM – African-Americans account for 12% of the U.S. population, yet only 5% of the people who work in science and engineering.1 Winston-Salem State University intends to do something about that with one of the projects in the Connect NC bond referendum that North Carolina voters will decide on March 15. WSSU intends to produce… READ MORE
VIDEO: More people need more doctors
CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina is now the nation’s 9th-most populous state – and more people need more doctors. One-third of the state’s physicians are expected to retire in the next four years, and the state is projected to need 1,885 more physicians by 2030. The Connect NC bond package that voters will decide on… READ MORE
BONDS: North Carolina’s good at this!
Fifteen years have passed since North Carolinians overwhelmingly approved $3.1 billion in higher-education bonds in 2000. With support from 70 percent of voters and a majority in all 100 North Carolina counties, the 2000 vote reaffirmed North Carolina’s historical commitment to public higher education. The success of that effort – at the time, the largest… READ MORE
Faculty Assembly panel: Higher Ed remains vital in NC
CHAPEL HILL (January 15, 2016) – At a statewide gathering of university faculty, Higher Education Works Executive Director David Rice said the public too often misses the link between reductions in state funds and rising tuition at North Carolina’s public universities. North Carolina’s shift away from public support has had a direct impact on tuition… READ MORE
UNCG Chancellor: “We need those workers.”
GREENSBORO – The Connect NC bonds on the ballot in the March 15 primary election will help connect real students with real jobs. “We’re turning away 140 qualified nursing students every year,” UNC Greensboro Chancellor Franklin Gilliam Jr. says in the accompanying video. “Cone Health tells us we cannot produce nurses fast enough for them… READ MORE
McCrory: With $2B in bonds, NC is “stepping up to the future”
RALEIGH (Jan. 5, 2016) – Since North Carolina’s last bond referendum 15 years ago, 2 million people – the equivalent of the entire state of Nebraska – have moved to North Carolina. “Two million people is a gigantic burden to be placed on our infrastructure,” Jim Rose, a regional president for Yadkin Bank, told several… READ MORE
Doubling down on a winning innovation at NCSSM
When the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics was launched in 1980, it was a completely new experiment. No state had ever created a public boarding school centered on advanced science and mathematics. A quarter-century later, the school is an international model. Other states and countries have copied the idea, and North Carolina policymakers… READ MORE
VIDEO: “Teachers who … put us on a different path”
GREENSBORO – It’s no secret – enrollment in teacher education has declined markedly across North Carolina’s public universities over the past five years. Yet nearly all of us can name a teacher who made a difference in our lives. “I think we can all go back in our early years and pick out two or… READ MORE
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