The Linda’s Fellowship

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CHAPEL HILL – Education doesn’t happen just in lectures. “Faculty connect in a more intimate way with students in terms of … how they learn differently today,” Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz of UNC Chapel Hill says in the accompanying video. As an example, Guskiewicz describes how Michael McFee, an award-winning poet and professor of English… READ MORE

Adviser Spotlight: Malik Hines

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Malik Hines is a second-year adviser serving with the N.C. State College Advising Corps at South Granville High School in Granville County Public Schools. By Malik HinesCollege Advising Corps CREEDMOOR –There are several reasons why I decided to join College Advising Corps, but I truly believe they all stem from the obligation I feel to… READ MORE

Goal: 2 million educated NC workers by 2030

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DURHAM (August 21, 2019) – Most of us know North Carolina has shifted from an economy based on textiles and furniture to one increasingly dominated by employers like Biogen that require workers to have a degree or credential. What fewer know is that North Carolina is not producing educated workers quickly enough to fill those… READ MORE

A moral imperative for our kids

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DURHAM (August 21, 2019) – To fix North Carolina’s leaky education pipeline, we need to start at the beginning: Pre-kindergarten. “It lays the foundation for third-grade reading proficiency,” Jim Hansen, PNC Bank’s Regional President for Eastern North Carolina, told the NC Chamber’s Education & Workforce Conference yesterday. Hansen is part of a group of executives… READ MORE

Community colleges roll out ‘Your Hire Education’

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By Jane StancillExecutive Director of CommunicationsNC Community College System RALEIGH (August 14, 2019) – This week, the NC Community College System launches its first statewide marketing campaign, communicating with one voice about the value of community colleges. Funded initially with private support from the NC Community Colleges Foundation and the John M. Belk Endowment, the… READ MORE

The draw of UNC Asheville

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ASHEVILLE – Nancy J. Cable suspected she’d like being UNC Asheville’s chancellor.  But it’s even better than she thought. “This is a gem within the UNC System, and it’s been known a long time as a gem,” Cable says in the accompanying video, citing UNC Asheville’s strength in academics and the humanities in particular. The… READ MORE

UNC Asheville and C15CO

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – At its campus in Research Triangle Park, Cisco Systems had a goal of zero waste. But it also had a cafeteria that generated 15,000 paper plates and plastic utensils a week as garbage. So the Fortune 500 company turned to the Mechatronics Engineering program at UNC Asheville for help. And a… READ MORE

Not just the dollars, but the impact of UNC research

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CHAPEL HILL – Research at UNC-Chapel Hill means both big dollars and big impact in North Carolina and around the globe. “Here at Carolina, we’re proud of the fact that we’re now the fifth-leading research university in the nation,” Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video. “We’ll top $1 billion in research expenditures… READ MORE