RALEIGH (July 19, 2022) – Until the middle of the last decade, leaders of the UNC and NC Community College Systems generally stayed for five to seven years. But with the announcement today that President Thomas Stith III will depart the Community College System Office in Raleigh Friday after little more than 18 months as president,… READ MORE
Community Colleges: Vital work for North Carolinians
RALEIGH (July 13, 2022) – If you didn’t already, we hope our series on North Carolina’s community colleges helped you appreciate the many services these 58 colleges provide their communities – the Swiss Army knives of higher education, we called them. TRAINING FOR NEWCOMERS As new employers like Toyota, VinFast and Boom Supersonic make huge… READ MORE
Teaching hard history
By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (July 13, 2022) – “Hard history is not hopeless history,” said Christie Norris, borrowing a quote from historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries as she spoke to a group of teachers in Chapel Hill last month. “You can teach challenging things in a way that inspires your students.” It’s a message educators… READ MORE
A pay cut
RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – With the 2022-23 budget they unveiled and adopted last week, state legislators simply aren’t taking care of their people – our people. The state has a $6.5 billion revenue surplus this year. Let that sink in: $6,524,141,444.00.1 Yet this state continues to systematically underfund public education. By one estimate, the… READ MORE
UNC across the street
RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Now we know where state legislators want to put the UNC System, NC Community College System, Department of Public Instruction and Department of Commerce. Across the street. And now it will cost a mere $180 million in taxpayer dollars. In what has grown to a $250 million plan to demolish… READ MORE
Frank Daniels Jr.
RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Blunt. Gruff. Contrarian. The remembrances of the aptly named Frank Daniels Jr. after he died at age 90 last week all noted his forthright opinions. In fact, if there was one thing (and maybe only one thing) Daniels shared with longtime nemesis Sen. Jesse Helms, it was that you always… READ MORE
Sartarelli: ‘A better university’ at UNCW
WILMINGTON (July 1, 2022) – UNC Wilmington’s outgoing Chancellor, Jose “Zito” Sartarelli, recalls that when he arrived seven years ago, he wanted UNCW to be recognized for excellence, as a global player, and for its community work. Sartarelli added international programs as well as undergraduate programs such as coastal engineering, respiratory therapy, cybersecurity and intelligent… READ MORE
UNCW Chancellor Volety: ‘It’s great to be home’
WILMINGTON (July 1, 2022) – As he becomes Chancellor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington today, Dr. Aswani K. Volety wants to keep the focus on students. “It’s really continuing what UNCW already does so well,” Volety says in the accompanying video interview with Higher Ed Works. UNCW has been the fastest-growing institution in… READ MORE
Central Piedmont: Bridge to Careers
CHARLOTTE (June 30, 2022) – The Bank of America Bridge to Careers program at Central Piedmont Community College is an effort to connect Black and Hispanic/Latino students with high-demand careers that pay family-sustaining wages. Bridge to Careers is part of a $25 million initiative by Bank of America in collaboration with two dozen community colleges… READ MORE
Bridge to Careers: ‘Anything that they need’
CHARLOTTE (June 30, 2022) – The Bridge to Careers program at Central Piedmont Community College provides Black and Hispanic/Latino students tuition, fees, books and materials. But it provides a lot more, says Central Piedmont President Kandi Deitemeyer. “What I love about this program just beyond the financial capacity … is the wraparound services that we… READ MORE
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