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
Hans: UNC System expands nursing pipeline
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
A university responds in the wake of disaster
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
A celebration of community a year after Helene
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
Schools and colleges in Western NC bounce back from Helene
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
Former provost sues board at UNC-Chapel Hill
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
Lessons Learned: Troubling tax cuts harm public schools
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
What? NC ranked #1 for business but 48th for funding schools?
By Dr. Francis P. Koster KANNAPOLIS (September 24, 2025) – On June 11 of this year, CNBC conducted a survey which ranked North Carolina (the ninth most populous state) as the “Number One State in America for Doing Business”! North Carolina won the number one slot in part because in 2013 our state legislature put… READ MORE
UNC System enrollment up; tuition might be too
RALEIGH (September 18, 2025) – Universities across the country are struggling to attract students due to shrinking birth rates. The UNC System is headed in the opposite direction. The system announced record fall enrollment figures last week that show 3.4% growth across the system in fall 2025. Enrollment increased at 15 of 16 campuses, topping… READ MORE
Hans on AI: Not the end of college
EDITOR’S NOTE: Everyone is figuring out how to use or cope with artificial intelligence, including the education community. In these remarks to the UNC Board of Governors last week, UNC System President Peter Hans addresses many issues the system faces with AI. Read the full text here. Or watch the remarks on video here. RALEIGH… READ MORE
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