Schools
- A long-term slide in NC education spending
RALEIGH – Since the mid-2000s, North Carolina has seen a general decline in expenditures per student in our K-12 public schools, community colleges and public universities.
Likewise – despite a modest ... Read more - WCU/Community Colleges: Nursing degrees under $20K CULLOWHEE – North Carolina faces a nursing shortage, but the need is particularly pronounced in Western North Carolina.
So Western Carolina University’s School of Nursing came up with what Chancellor David Belcher ... Read more
- McColl: Community colleges touch more people CHARLOTTE – The man who built Bank of America says North Carolina’s community colleges have been vital to the state’s business community – and to his own career.
Community colleges serve ... Read more
- Teacher and student PINEHURST – Ed Spitler started out as a community college student. And through five degrees and 19 years teaching civil engineering technology and surveying, that’s where his heart remains.
Spitler, a ... Read more
- UNCG professor sees a Digital Zen GREENSBORO – Religion, we all know, is a touchy subject – but imagine how challenging it is to teach religion in a world that is both increasingly polarized and increasingly ... Read more
- New Community College President a man of many hats RALEIGH – Dr. James “Jimmie” Williamson has worn quite an assortment of hats – and he might need them all when he becomes President of the NC Community College System ... Read more
- NCGAP: You’re in, but you’re not The General Assembly needs to defer its deferred admissions program.
In a provision tucked into the state budget last year, legislators declared that 6-year graduation rates at our state’s public universities ... Read more
- Eagle Connect houses Durham Tech students on NC Central campus DURHAM – Fourteen students at Durham Tech already have one foot on a university campus.
Literally.
When applicants fall just short of admission standards at NC Central University, NCCU doesn’t write them ... Read more
- Voters Approve $350 Million for NC Community Colleges Much-Needed Construction, Repair and Renovation to Begin at all 58 Colleges
RALEIGH (March 16, 2016) – North Carolina voters approved Tuesday’s $2 billion bond referendum with nearly two-thirds supporting the infrastructure ... Read more
- Connect NC and NC Community Colleges If voters approve on March 15, North Carolina’s community colleges plan to use proceeds from the Connect NC bond package to help students fill jobs in each community they serve.
The ... Read more
