CHAPEL HILL – The search for a new UNC System president has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said last week. But a practiced hand will remain at the helm. “The timeline of the search has certainly been changed,” Randy Ramsey, Chair of the UNC Board of Governors, told the board. Ramsey said he… READ MORE
Colleges to help communities ‘grow their own’ teachers
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 teachers. The board approved two new teacher-preparation transfer degrees – an associate in arts in teacher preparation and associate in science in teacher preparation –… READ MORE
Mother of invention: UNC System responds to COVID-19
CHAPEL HILL – At the beginning of the 2019-20 academic year on University of North Carolina campuses, few would have predicted the year would end in a global pandemic. Yet here we are. “We’re in the midst of a very serious health crisis,” Interim UNC System President Bill Roper told the UNC Board of Governors… READ MORE
Caudill: If ever basic research mattered…
By W. Lowry Caudill CHAPEL HILL – We need an answer for coronavirus in a hurry. Scientific research generally doesn’t happen in a hurry. So thank goodness for the work Dr. Ralph Baric has done for the past six years in a secret lab at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Baric and… READ MORE
Roper: ‘Just get the budget done’
CHAPEL HILL – Legislative leaders and Gov. Roy Cooper think they’re scoring political points in their standoff over the 2019-21 state budget, which still hasn’t been adopted more than six months into the fiscal year. But as the governor and the legislature feud over Medicaid expansion and K-12 teacher pay, more than 240,000 students at… READ MORE
UNC Presidential Search: Independence, integrity, stature
EDITOR’S NOTE: A delegation of Higher Ed Works board members met last week with Randy Ramsey, Chair of the UNC System Board of Governors and Co-Chair of the Board’s Presidential Search Committee; and Kim Strach, Executive Director of the Presidential Search, to discuss the search process. The following letter summarizes the group’s major points. December… READ MORE
A look at NC’s HMSIs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Some North Carolinians aren’t familiar with our state’s Historically Minority-Serving Institutions (HMSIs) – but HMSIs are taking on growing importance in efforts to build an educated workforce in the state. UNC-TV will take a look at the educational opportunities and partnerships North Carolina’s six public HMSIs provide at 8 p.m. tonight… READ MORE
RTI & University Collaboration
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – RTI International was founded 60 years ago to offer opportunities to high-level science graduates emerging from North Carolina’s universities. And those relationships continue to this day. “North Carolina universities are integral and intertwined with everything that RTI does,” Jacqueline Olich, RTI’s Senior Director of University Collaborations, says in the accompanying video…. READ MORE
MyFutureNC: 2 million educated workers by 2030
CHAPEL HILL – The NC General Assembly and Gov. Roy Cooper adopted an ambitious goal: To provide an additional 400,000 North Carolinians with degrees or high-quality credentials by 2030 beyond those who are already expected to earn degrees or credentials.1 “The goal of myFutureNC is by the year 2030, to have 2 million people (ages… READ MORE
Roper: ‘More people graduating faster than ever’
CHAPEL HILL – The strategic plan developed by former UNC System President Margaret Spellings, Higher Expectations, talks about building more “on ramps” to higher education for underrepresented rural, minority and first-generation students. The System’s Interim President, William Roper, says he sees no need for that to change. Roper quotes Spellings’ “crisp” description of the plan… READ MORE
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