CHAPEL HILL – Randy Ramsey openly acknowledges there’s been strife on the UNC Board of Governors. But the Chair of the 24-person board says every member wants what’s best for the ...

UNC System InterimPresident Bill Roper CHAPEL HILL – The search for a new UNC System president has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said last week. But a practiced ...

RALEIGH – It had nothing to do with the coronavirus, but the State Board of Community Colleges took an important step last week to expand North Carolina’s pipeline of future ...

GREENSBORO – When it became clear in early March that the UNC System and colleges across the country would shift classes online in response to the coronavirus, Roy Schwartzman knew ...

RALEIGH – At the very time thousands of businesses have ordered layoffs in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the leaders of Bandwidth Inc. on NC State University’s Centennial Campus did ...

Tezeta Tamrat is a second-year adviser serving with the Davidson College Advising Corps at Mallard Creek High School in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. By Tezeta TamratCollege Advising Corps “Congratulations, Tezeta, you’ve been selected to ...

Thousands upon thousands of gloves, masks and face shields from nursing, respiratory therapy and even cosmetology programs. Disaster loan applications.  WiFi hot spots in parking lots. Tablets and laptops for students who ...

SHELBY – The shift to online classes has revealed anew North Carolina’s digital divide.1  So, because North Carolina community colleges also tend to have plenty of parking lots that can accommodate ...

CHAPEL HILL – ‘Disruptive’ can be a loaded term. But if anything’s been disruptive to higher education – in North Carolina and around the world – it’s the coronavirus. Jim Ptaszynski, ...

CHAPEL HILL – When word came that UNC-Chapel Hill would move all classes online due to the coronavirus, Associate Professor Steven King didn’t hesitate. King shipped virtual-reality headsets to the 28 ...