- Hopes for 2024RALEIGH (January 4, 2024) – The 2024 elections will be important to America – and to the future of American democracy. But they also will be vitally important to the future ...Read more
- 2023: The chaos continuesRALEIGH (December 28, 2023) – It might seem strange to complain about underfunding of public education in a year when North Carolina had a $4.8 billion budget surplus.1 But it’s true. In ...Read more
- Florida-style bill would make colleges switch accreditorsRALEIGH (September 28, 2023) – Last Thursday morning, HB8 in the NC General Assembly was titled “Computer Sci. Grad. Requirement.” It required high-school students to complete a computer science course ...Read more
- NCCCS President Cox: ‘That’s what community colleges do, folks’RALEIGH (April 24, 2023) – For the new president of North Carolina’s Community College System, community colleges are about meeting employers’ needs. But most important of all, they’re about economic ...Read more
- Forsyth Tech: ‘It’s really at a crisis level.’WINSTON-SALEM (March 16, 2023) – Forsyth Technical Community College President Janet Spriggs has 36 vacancies among her faculty to fill – far more than usual this time of year. And ...Read more
- Nursing instructor shortage: Pay them.RALEIGH (November 19, 2023) – Only through “robust resource allocation” – a polite way to say money – can North Carolina produce 50% more nursing graduates by 2028 or 2029, ...Read more
- 2022: An anxious yearRALEIGH (December 29, 2022) – 2022 has been an anxious year for North Carolina. As the nation stumbled out of a pandemic, inflation spiked, interest rates rose, shortages in the state’s ...Read more
- Leatherwood: Community colleges prepare health care workforceBy Dr. Laura B. LeatherwoodPresident, Blue Ridge Community College FLAT ROCK (November 23, 2022) – Educational institutions serve as a vital pipeline that feed much-needed talent into our health care system. ...Read more
- Community Colleges: What don’t we get?RALEIGH (October 6, 2022) – North Carolina is rated the No. 1 state in the nation for business.1 Then why can’t we do a better job paying the people who ...Read more
- CHATHAM: With 9,000 new jobs, it’s a regional economySANFORD (October 6, 2022) – It’s a pleasant problem to have. But with electric-vehicle maker VinFast (7,400 jobs) and semiconductor maker Wolfspeed (1,800 jobs) set to open new plants there in ...Read more