Schools
- Work together to keep higher education accessible
By Paul Fulton
Co-Chair
Higher Education Works
North Carolina’s public universities have long been considered our state’s most important asset – they offer opportunity to students from Murphy to Manteo, and in the ... Read more - BOWLES: Leading UNC into the future
By Erskine B. Bowles
President Emeritus
University of North Carolina
We North Carolinians are blessed to have a high-achieving, diverse University system that is admired not just across our country, but around the ... Read more
- “Free” community college? Our neighbors in Tennessee invented “free” community college.
In 2014, Republican Gov. Bill Haslam launched the Tennessee Promise – two years of tuition-free community college for Tennessee high school graduates. Tennessee ... Read more
- No “typical” college student No longer is the “typical” college student necessarily a fresh-faced high-school graduate who immediately zips through four years at State U. and enters the work force.
That “typical” student, in fact, is ... Read more
- SPELLINGS: Strengthening NC’s Education Continuum
University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings made the following remarks Thursday, Aug. 10 at the North Carolina Chamber’s 2017 Conference on Education.
Thank you so much for welcoming me this ... Read more
- The good and bad of the 2017-19 state budget RALEIGH (June 28, 2017) – Today the NC General Assembly overrode Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the 2017-19 state budget that legislators approved last week.
To be sure, there are things ... Read more
- 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
- State budget proposals: Still not enough RALEIGH (June 7, 2017) – When it comes to higher education in North Carolina, budget proposals adopted in recent weeks by the NC Senate and NC House both have their ... Read more
- Spellings: “Make higher education our higher expectation” CHAPEL HILL – It seems so simple – yet not everyone seems to get it.
“A better educated state benefits us all,” begins Higher Expectations, the University of North Carolina System’s ... Read more
- Educate for jobs or life? Spellings: “Both of those things.” CHAPEL HILL – Anyone who’s taken the SAT knows that sometimes the answer is “all of the above.”
And that’s how University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings responds in the ... Read more
