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Higher ed faces many pressures; NC schools will feel impact

October 8, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Tom Campbell RALEIGH (October 8, 2025) – Folks in higher education must feel like General Custer at Little Big Horn: fired at from almost every angle. Higher education hasn’t faced this many pressures in our lifetimes. Nowhere is that stress greater than from the federal government. Colleges and universities have bullseyes pasted on them… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, UNC System

Why is enrollment booming across UNC System schools?

October 8, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Kate Denning Carolina Public Press DURHAM (October 1, 2025) – The University of North Carolina System reported record enrollment numbers overall. Year-over-year increases occurred at 15 of its 16 higher education institutions for the 2025-26 year. For the system as a whole, enrollment jumped 3.4% from the previous year. This includes significant growth at… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Prosperity, UNC System

Foundations of American Democracy: ‘What we should aspire to’

October 8, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (October 1, 2025) – In an era where meddlesome legislators and governing boards try to dictate what professors should teach, 11 history professors at UNC-Chapel Hill took a mandate from the UNC System Board of Governors and made lemonade. After state legislators attempted to require every student to take a course in America’s foundational… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, From Our Campuses, UNC Chapel Hill

Lessons Learned: Fully funding public schools is the answer

October 2, 2025 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (October 2, 2025) – Over the past several weeks we’ve looked at a range of issues in North Carolina’s public schools, but one theme stands true throughout – most problems stem from a lack of funding.   Low teacher pay Low pay is a major concern for North Carolina… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, K-12 Teacher Pay, Lessons Learned

Hans: UNC System expands nursing pipeline

October 2, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Peter Hans President, UNC System RALEIGH (October 2, 2025) – North Carolina needs more nurses, and the state’s public universities are stepping up to make it happen. Earlier this week, I visited Fayetteville State University to celebrate a $2 million gift from Cape Fear Valley Health and to highlight the tens of millions that… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Fayetteville State University, Health, Nursing

A university responds in the wake of disaster

October 2, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Eric Johnson ASHEVILLE (September 26, 2025) – Public universities are equal parts classroom and toolkit. They teach the next generation of students, and they also serve as huge repositories of useful expertise. That’s never clearer than in times of disaster. Last week, UNC Asheville held a multi-day symposium — Remembering, Rebuilding, Reimagining — to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, UNC Asheville, Uncategorized

A celebration of community a year after Helene

October 2, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

ASHEVILLE (September 26, 2025) – The one word people repeated over and over was ‘community.’ A three-day symposium last week organized by UNC Asheville faculty to mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene’s devastation of Western North Carolina covered a vast array of topics, with nearly 80 events and discussion sessions. And over and over,… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, UNC Asheville

Schools and colleges in Western NC bounce back from Helene

October 2, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Kate Denning Carolina Public Press ASHEVILLE (September 23, 2025) – Buncombe County Schools Superintendent Rob Jackson and Mars Hill University President Tony Floyd both used the same phrase to describe their corners of the state in the early days after Tropical Storm Helene tore through — an island.  Whether Helene kept college students inside… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025

Former provost sues board at UNC-Chapel Hill

September 24, 2025 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

HILLSBOROUGH (September 22, 2025) – UNC-Chapel Hill’s former provost sued the university’s Board of Trustees Monday, saying the board repeatedly violated state open meetings and public records laws – and even used a platform that deletes texts after they’re read to evade the law. Chris Clemens, a respected astrophysicist and a recognized conservative, joined UNC’s… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Governance, UNC Board of Governors, UNC System

Lessons Learned: Troubling tax cuts harm public schools

September 24, 2025 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works (RALEIGH) – While North Carolina school systems are grappling with underfunding, corporations and millionaires are paying less and less taxes. Corporate tax rates were reduced from a 6.9% rate in 2012 to 2.3% and are planned to drop to 0% by 2030. In the year 2000, the rate was… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2025, Lessons Learned

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