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“Eastern North Carolina needs us”: The economic impact of ECU

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – When it first opened in 1909, the new, two-year East Carolina Teachers Training School had a critical, if modest, goal: Train teachers for the classrooms of Eastern North Carolina. But then-former Governor Thomas Jordan Jarvis sensed even then that the tiny school might grow: “We can never… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU

“Sticker girl”: The impact of ECU entrepreneurs

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Leslie Boney  AYDEN (September 7, 2023) – Taylor Walden didn’t come to East Carolina University expecting to become an entrepreneur. Her family wanted her to go into health care, maybe nursing, and come back home to Winston-Salem after graduation. But early in her freshman year, people in her dorm started asking her to hand-letter… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU

“We need to find a solution”: The impact of ECU research

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson has made a discovery that could stop skin cancer in its tracks. The molecule she is developing in her lab at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University appears to be able to stop some melanoma cells from growing and to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU, Research

“Lot of purple and gold here”: The impact of ECU’s rural docs

September 7, 2023 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Leslie Boney KENANSVILLE (September 7, 2023) – You could say Jon Kornegay was born to be a rural doctor. His father was a physician in a small town in Duplin County in Eastern North Carolina. His mother was a graduate of East Carolina University’s first nurse practitioner class in 1976. But it was his… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, ECU, Rural

Too narrow a view

January 25, 2023 by Higher Ed Works 4 Comments

RALEIGH (January 25, 2022) – Some folks measure the value of higher education solely by how much its graduates make. Most of us know there’s a lot more to it. In a column this week, John Hood of the John Locke Foundation contends that North Carolinians don’t receive an adequate return on what he calls… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, Economic Impact, Our Opinion, UNC System

Woodson: Ripple effects

March 11, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (March 11, 2022) – The 2.1 billion dollars NC State University raised for its endowment don’t help just NC State – they help North Carolina’s entire economy. “They have a tremendous impact on the economy,” Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video, “by providing the critical workforce for the economy, by funding the… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Economic Impact, NCSU

Higher ed must get better at second chances

April 28, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

By Eric Johnson North Carolina is entering a strange economic moment. Less than a year after the sharpest recession in modern history, the state is poised for a booming recovery. After peaking at 13.5% in May of last year, state unemployment now stands at 5.2%. But that’s not the whole story. There are two ways… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, At Risk, Economic Impact, Our Opinion

Welcome to 2030

August 14, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (Aug. 13, 2020) – Welcome to 2030. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated change in North Carolina workplaces to where it would have been in 2030 without the pandemic, NC State University economist Michael Walden told a virtual audience at the NC Chamber’s annual Education & Workforce Conference. Though jobs in North Carolina food preparation… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, Economic Impact

Tech firm booms amid pandemic thanks to NC higher ed

April 16, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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 the opposite. Bandwidth, which makes software for voice conferencing by Zoom, Google and other customers, announced last week that it will spend $30 million for… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, Economic Impact

Not just the dollars, but the impact of UNC research

August 1, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – Research at UNC-Chapel Hill means both big dollars and big impact in North Carolina and around the globe. “Here at Carolina, we’re proud of the fact that we’re now the fifth-leading research university in the nation,” Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video. “We’ll top $1 billion in research expenditures… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Economic Impact, Excellence, Research, UNC Chapel Hill

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