- NC voters reaffirm support for public higher educationRALEIGH (March 17, 2016) – Once again, North Carolina voters affirmed their deep support for public higher education Tuesday, approving $2 billion in Connect NC bonds by a vote of ...Read more
- Voters Approve $350 Million for NC Community CollegesMuch-Needed Construction, Repair and Renovation to Begin at all 58 Colleges RALEIGH (March 16, 2016) – North Carolina voters approved Tuesday’s $2 billion bond referendum with nearly two-thirds supporting the infrastructure ...Read more
- CONNECT NC: Don’t pass up an important decisionMarch 14, 2016 – Not long before an early-voting site in Raleigh closed Saturday, two blind women made their way, white canes in hand, to vote in the primary election ...Read more
- Connect NC bonds would fill critical STEM needsBy Susan D. DeVore President & CEO, Premier, Inc. Trustee, UNC Charlotte According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, healthcare represents our nation’s largest and fastest growing employment sector, generating close to ...Read more
- BONDS: NC ramps up for 10 million residentsYou don’t add 2 million people without scaling up. Two million people have moved here since the last state bond referendum in 2000.1 The Connect NC bonds on the ballot Tuesday ...Read more
- UNCW health professionals in demand as NC growsWILMINGTON – The number of students at UNC Wilmington’s College of Health and Human Services has more than doubled since 2010, and the University expects even greater expansion in the ...Read more
- UNC Asheville fuses engineering and the artsASHEVILLE – Engineering at a liberal arts school? You bet. If North Carolina voters approve on March 15, $21 million from the Connect NC bond proposal will go to renovate two ...Read more
- NC universities lag peers in faculty payFAYETTEVILLE (March 4, 2016) – With North Carolina’s public universities lagging their peers in faculty compensation, the UNC Board of Governors has decided to make competitive pay a top priority ...Read more
- ECU Life Sciences: The intersection of education and jobsGREENVILLE – The technology involved in East Carolina University’s proposed Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building is far from simple. But the goal isn’t. “We can make a major difference on Eastern ...Read more
- $110M in bonds would help WCU science escape the ‘70sCULLOWHEE – When Western Carolina University’s Natural Science Building was built in the 1970s, Western had 6,100 students – 15 studied nursing, and none studied engineering.1 But as students increasingly gravitate ...Read more