FAYETTEVILLE – Heather Griffiths almost missed out on becoming a professor. “I worked two or three jobs at a time to pay for college,” she recalled in an interview this year. “I didn’t think I could afford grad school.” Luckily, the sociology major found her way into a stipend-supported graduate program and kept on studying…. READ MORE
Faculty raises welcome, but won’t stem poaching
RALEIGH (June 29, 2016) – The $22.3 billion budget for 2016-17 that state legislators are moving to approve this week offers stable funding for state universities and community colleges, but it fails yet again to make investments in faculty sufficient to keep our campuses competitive. The budget cuts income taxes by $145 million by raising… READ MORE
Making “Orgo” accessible at UNC-CH
CHAPEL HILL – Few classes in undergraduate life are as dreaded as organic chemistry. It is the gatekeeper class, the prerequisite that guards pre-med majors, pharmacy programs, and a host of other high-demand scientific fields. “Orgo,” as students tend to call it, is rarely beloved. Which is one of the reasons UNC Chapel Hill… READ MORE
Government by auto-pilot
North Carolina’s Senate is considering a drastic step to restrict state revenue: A proposed constitutional amendment would cap the state income-tax rate at 5.5%, sharply limiting the state’s ability to support services in a downturn or natural disaster. Higher education would likely bear the brunt of that policy. Much of state spending is mandated by… READ MORE
Not a profession but a passion
RALEIGH – When Jeff Joines was an undergraduate at NC State University, IBM kept making him job offers – offers that would seem a dream to many electrical engineers. But Joines kept putting off Big Blue. Then one of his professors encouraged Joines – son of a 7th-grade English teacher – to teach. “You know… READ MORE
Tom Ross – “One of those carpenters”
CHAPEL HILL (May 26, 2016) – UNC President Margaret Spellings and the Board of Governors that oversees the University of North Carolina System presented President Emeritus Tom Ross the highest award the Board bestows. The University Award recognizes exceptional service to higher education in North Carolina. Here are remarks delivered that evening by Spellings; Tom… READ MORE
Gergen: “Let’s not go back”
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. – As an advisor to four presidents – Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton – David Gergen has seen his share of controversy. And as a native North Carolinian, he sees HB2 as a controversy that continues to damage his home state and its stellar universities. The Higher Education Works Foundation followed up with… READ MORE
Don’t limit access in the land of opportunity
Graduation rates for North Carolina’s public universities must improve. There’s almost total consensus on that point, especially with tuition rising steadily in recent years. Though North Carolina’s public universities have an overall graduation rate nearly 10 percentage points above the national average, there’s wide variance between schools. That’s led to calls from pundits and policymakers… READ MORE
Teacher and student
PINEHURST – Ed Spitler started out as a community college student. And through five degrees and 19 years teaching civil engineering technology and surveying, that’s where his heart remains. Spitler, a Sandhills Community College alumnus, began teaching at Sandhills in 1997 after he earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering Technology at UNC Charlotte. He… READ MORE
Reward teachers at every level
The $22.2 billion budget proposal adopted last week by the NC Senate offers generous raises to public school teachers that average 6.5%.1 The move is part of an effort to raise average teacher salaries to $54,000 over two years, and K-12 teachers – many of them graduates of our state’s public universities – deserve those… READ MORE
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