By Don Martin WINSTON-SALEM (December 7, 2023) – In 2011, I served as Superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. At that time, the school district focused on developing every school and ...

RALEIGH (December 13, 2023) – Higher Ed Works is now Public Ed Works.  Public Ed Works focuses on increasing residents’ knowledge of public education in North Carolina. We educate state residents about ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (December 8, 2023) – They drove him out. As Higher Ed Works Chair Paul Fulton told us more than two weeks ago, the NC General Assembly, the UNC ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: For the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, News & Observer Associate Opinion Editor Ned Barnett looked up a speech Kennedy gave at UNC-Chapel Hill in ...

CHAPEL HILL (November 29, 2023) – UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is considering an offer to leave Chapel Hill to become president of Michigan State University.1 In a striking show of ...

RALEIGH (November 29, 2023) – We’re glad John Preyer doesn’t dispute the many ways public education has been damaged in North Carolina. Higher Ed Works Chair Paul Fulton authored a column ...

RALEIGH (November 29, 2023) – The new Chancellor of UNC Asheville will be no stranger to the UNC System Office. In a special meeting today, System President Peter Hans and the ...

By Paul Fulton WINSTON-SALEM (November 21, 2023) – There’s little wonder why UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is entertaining a new job. Guskiewicz is reportedly a finalist for the presidency at ...

We have received an overwhelming number of responses to Paul Fulton’s Piece published on November 21, 2023 and thought it valuable to highlight this response from Michael Tiemann, which depicts ...

GREENSBORO (November 16, 2023) – If there’s any doubt about the value of a UNC System degree, a new study shows an incredible return on that investment. The $2 million study ...