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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...