Schools
- NC budget: Positive short-term, threatening long-term
RALEIGH (June 22, 2017) – At first glance, the budget compromise unveiled this week by legislative leaders seems encouraging.
It would grant K-12 public school teachers an average raise of 3.3% ... Read more - 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
