Margaret Spellings, who will assume office March 1 as President of the University of North Carolina System, wrote the following essay for The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the ...

RALEIGH – With global population swelling and farm acreage shrinking, agriculture faces enormous challenges to feed and clothe the human race in coming decades. Increasingly, the answers to those challenges will ...

WINSTON-SALEM – African-Americans account for 12% of the U.S. population, yet only 5% of the people who work in science and engineering.1 Winston-Salem State University intends to do something about that ...

CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina is now the nation’s 9th-most populous state – and more people need more doctors. One-third of the state’s physicians are expected to retire in the next ...

Fifteen years have passed since North Carolinians overwhelmingly approved $3.1 billion in higher-education bonds in 2000. With support from 70 percent of voters and a majority in all 100 North Carolina ...

CHAPEL HILL (January 15, 2016) – At a statewide gathering of university faculty, Higher Education Works Executive Director David Rice said the public too often misses the link between reductions ...

GREENSBORO – The Connect NC bonds on the ballot in the March 15 primary election will help connect real students with real jobs. “We’re turning away 140 qualified nursing students every ...

RALEIGH (Jan. 5, 2016) – Since North Carolina’s last bond referendum 15 years ago, 2 million people – the equivalent of the entire state of Nebraska – have moved to ...

When the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics was launched in 1980, it was a completely new experiment.  No state had ever created a public boarding school centered on ...

GREENSBORO – It’s no secret – enrollment in teacher education has declined markedly across North Carolina’s public universities over the past five years. Yet nearly all of us can name a ...