WINSTON-SALEM – If there’s a model for helping young North Carolinians get interested, get into and get through college – and yes, get it paid for – it’s the Crosby Scholars Partners program. Begun in 1992 by organizers of The CROSBY National Celebrity Golf Tournament and sponsored initially by Sara Lee Corporation, the program asks… READ MORE
Rural broadband can help close the “homework gap”
RALEIGH (May 29, 2018) – The NC Rural Center hears regularly from rural parents who park outside a local library or fast-food joint until 9 or 10 p.m. on weeknights – just so their children can get a WiFi signal and do their homework. “They’ve got a laptop…. They just don’t have that Internet,” declared… READ MORE
Video: Kristi Gaddis – Financial and Scholarship Aid
NCCCS President Hans: “People who are bettering their lives”
RALEIGH – After serving six years on the State Board of Community Colleges, Peter Hans is already familiar with North Carolina’s community colleges. “I’m truly excited about the challenge to help lead what is probably the nation’s very best community college system – 58 colleges spread throughout the state, within a 30-minute drive of 95%… READ MORE
Hans: Community colleges ‘critical, essential’ to NC’s future
RALEIGH – The NC Community College System’s new president likes to use two words to describe community colleges’ role in North Carolina’s future: critical and essential. “When I think about North Carolina’s future, we know we’ve got to expand the number of North Carolinians with education beyond high school. Community colleges are critical to achieving… READ MORE
Video: Kristi Gaddis – Partnership and Opportunities
ECU Dentistry: Keeping your smile
GREENVILLE – In serving rural patients, Dr. Greg Chadwick sees the painful choices people without access to good dental care sometimes must make. East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine aims to supply more dentists to rural and underserved parts of the state. In the accompanying video, Dean Chadwick shares the case of a teenage… READ MORE
Show us your budget
RALEIGH – With the opening today of the NC General Assembly’s 2018 session, the focus will be on thousands of teachers from across the state rallying for better pay, supplies and working conditions – in short, for respect for public education.1 But more important will be the budget state legislators leave behind the day they adjourn… READ MORE
Barcott to UNC grads: Take the pain
CHAPEL HILL (May 13, 2018) – On a day normally considered joyous, alumnus Rye Barcott offered some advice based in reality for UNC Chapel Hill graduates who will ultimately confront adversity: Take the pain. Barcott, a 2001 Carolina alum, Marine Corps veteran in Bosnia and Iraq, social entrepreneur and Higher Education Works board member, told… READ MORE
Teachers come first
RALEIGH – Gov. Roy Cooper’s recommended budget for 2018-19 heads in the right direction by prioritizing education over tax cuts and offering an average raise of 8% to North Carolina teachers, whose pay ranked 37th in the country in a recent survey.1 The two-year budget state legislators adopted last year included average raises for K-12… READ MORE
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