CHAPEL HILL – As North Carolina pursues a goal to have 2 million people with post-secondary educations by 2030, the Chair of the UNC Board of Governors thinks the University System can do a better job communicating with other levels of education. “One thing I’d like to see us do a better job of …… READ MORE
Ramsey: Keep our faculty here
CHAPEL HILL – Whether it’s his boat-building company or the 48,000 faculty and staff of the UNC System, Randy Ramsey knows the most important part of any operation is the people. “The University is very large and very complicated,” Ramsey, Chair of the UNC Board of Governors, says in the accompanying video. “But regardless of… READ MORE
Hans: ‘The fiscally responsible thing to do’
CHAPEL HILL – After a pandemic and three years without a new state budget, the UNC System needs to invest in both its physical capital and its human capital, President Peter Hans says. “The university has thrived because of public support for its work,” Hans says in the accompanying video. In what Hans refers to… READ MORE
The cost of deferred maintenance at NC universities
GREENSBORO – Not many donors want to put their name on an HVAC system. Yet sometimes those systems need to be replaced. And across the UNC System, postponed maintenance amounts to billions of dollars. “There’s deferred maintenance on all of our campuses,” UNC Greensboro Chancellor Frank Gilliam Jr. says in the accompanying video. Then Gilliam… READ MORE
UNC board waives SAT/ACT requirement for Fall 2022
CHAPEL HILL (May 27, 2021) – In a debate over whether to require students to submit SAT or ACT scores with their applications for admission in Fall 2022, access – particularly for rural students – won out. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the UNC Board of Governors that oversees 16 public university campuses… READ MORE
New beginnings for the Class of 2021
To commence means to begin. And after weathering a worldwide pandemic, commencement for the Class of 2021 indeed felt like a new beginning for thousands of UNC System graduates. AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL, Dr. Anthony Fauci and UNC alum Kizzmekia Corbett spoke to graduates and received honorary degrees. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy… READ MORE
2 million educated by 2030
RALEIGH (May 5, 2021) – When’s the last time North Carolina’s K-12 public schools, community colleges, public and private universities, as well as its business, philanthropic and faith communities, all agreed on a course of action? It’s hard to recall, but that’s what they’ve done by adopting a goal to make sure North Carolinians are… READ MORE
Hans: ‘We’ve got to reach more adult learners’
CHAPEL HILL (April 28, 2021) – Birth rates dropped during the Great Recession – many families weren’t sure of their futures. And 13 years later, colleges and universities are preparing to face the consequences. The population of 18- to 24-year-olds nationwide is projected to decline in coming years, with precipitous drops in the Northeast and… READ MORE
BOG names sports-betting exec to UNC-CH board
CHAPEL HILL (April 22, 2021) – The UNC Board of Governors voted to name an online sports-gambling executive to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees today over the objections of prominent board members. Malcolm Turner was a Morehead Scholar and a Rhodes Scholar finalist at UNC-Chapel Hill, later earning a JD and MBA from Harvard University…. READ MORE
Hans: NC’s universities step up
CHAPEL HILL (March 24, 2021) – North Carolina’s public universities have stepped up in oh-so-many ways to combat the coronavirus pandemic, UNC System President Peter Hans says. “I’m so proud of our campuses that are offering mass vaccination clinics,” Hans says in the accompanying video. He points to UNC Health – which had already delivered… READ MORE
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