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
UNC System to hold tuition flat for 8th year
RALEIGH (September 14, 2023) – The UNC System will hold in-state tuition constant at its 17 campuses in 2024-25 for the eighth straight year, President Peter Hans announced today. “Low tuition is at the heart of our compact with the citizens of North Carolina,” Hans told the UNC Board of Governors. “We can only be… 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
Voter411 fills a void of info about Eastern NC candidates
By Cindy Elmore, Ph.D. GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Every fall semester, I put Election Day on my syllabus calendar. Students always eagerly hope this means class is cancelled that day. It isn’t. Instead – just as I don’t want busy students to forget their upcoming quiz and assignment dates – I’m hoping they won’t… READ MORE
Teachers in peril
CHAPEL HILL (August 31, 2023) – If the killing of a professor by one of his students Monday at UNC-Chapel Hill tells us nothing else, it tells us how treacherous teaching has become in this country. We still don’t know the shooter’s motives. We still don’t fully know whether the shooter intended to kill more… READ MORE
Why do we let our General Assembly dismantle public education?
By John Tate III CHARLOTTE (August 23, 2023) – Why do we let our General Assembly dismantle K-12 public education as we have known it, to the detriment of our community’s kids and our economy? It is our fault, you know. We are empowered as a people to change those who govern. We either just… READ MORE
N.C. A&T: Almost $150M in sponsored research
GREENSBORO (August 23, 2023) – Less than two weeks after it announced it makes a $2.4 billion economic impact on North Carolina’s economy, N.C. A&T State University announced it has reached nearly $150 million a year in sponsored research. The university said it received $147.4 million in research and program funds in fiscal 2023 –… READ MORE
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