CHAPEL HILL (June 3, 2026) – North Carolina needs more engineers. It’s that simple. In the accompanying video, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts makes the case for why Carolina plans to build its engineering programs – not to infringe on other engineering schools in the UNC System, but to build on programs it already has…. READ MORE
UNC should not close its Global Studies Centers
By Lloyd Kramer CHAPEL HILL (January 22, 2026) – The recent announcement that UNC-Chapel Hill plans to close its six thriving Global Studies Centers is the wrong response to current financial and political challenges. Although I retired from the History Department’s faculty in 2024, this plan for closing the Centers has provoked my Tar Heel… READ MORE
Cooper’s proposed budget: Long-overdue investments
RALEIGH (March 31, 2021) – Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed state budget for 2021-23 would award long-overdue raises to educators and put a $4.7 billion bond issue on the ballot to pay for capital projects across North Carolina’s education systems. As State Budget Director Charles Perusse noted, the governor’s proposal is just the first inning in… READ MORE
Don Flow: The case for NC education investments
EDITOR’S NOTE: As state legislators returned to Raleigh recently for their 2021 session, Winston-Salem businessman Don Flow shared the following thoughts with legislative leaders. By Don Flow America is in the midst of enormous turmoil, with rural whites and urban blacks caught in the same undercurrent. Although they express their frustration and anger in different ways… READ MORE
Steve Farmer: No number measures a student
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 21, 2020) – When we apply to college, we obsess about numbers – GPA, SAT, ACT, class rank. But Steve Farmer sees the whole person. Not just a number. Farmer’s departure as UNC-Chapel Hill’s vice provost for enrollment and undergraduate admissions, announced Monday, is a tremendous loss for the University. A Virginia… READ MORE
College rankings don’t happen by chance
Whether it’s U.S. News & World Report or The Wall Street Journal doing the rankings, it’s clear North Carolina is blessed with an abundance of highly rated colleges and universities, both public and private. In all, 13 North Carolina universities are ranked by U.S. News among national universities.1 • Duke University ranked 10th overall among national universities in… READ MORE
How educated does North Carolina need to be?
CARY – Just how educated are North Carolinians? And how educated do we need to be by 2030? If we count high-quality credentials, 47.4% of North Carolinians had obtained a degree or credential beyond high school in 20161 – that’s 13 percentage points below the Lumina Foundation’s national goal of 60% attainment by 2025.2 It lags… READ MORE
“Not there without Crosby”
WINSTON-SALEM – If there’s a model for helping young North Carolinians get interested, get into and get through college – and yes, get it paid for – it’s the Crosby Scholars Partners program. Begun in 1992 by organizers of The CROSBY National Celebrity Golf Tournament and sponsored initially by Sara Lee Corporation, the program asks… READ MORE
Show us your budget
RALEIGH – With the opening today of the NC General Assembly’s 2018 session, the focus will be on thousands of teachers from across the state rallying for better pay, supplies and working conditions – in short, for respect for public education.1 But more important will be the budget state legislators leave behind the day they adjourn… READ MORE
Leakage from the college pipeline
WINSTON-SALEM – Under current trends, out of 100 North Carolina 9th-graders, 72 will graduate from high school in the next four years and say they intend to go to college. But only 53 will eventually enroll, and after 10 years, only 30 will go on to earn a degree. Twenty-three will leave college with no… READ MORE
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