PEMBROKE – By reducing tuition to $500 a semester for in-state students at UNC Pembroke, Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings thinks state legislators are trying to abide by a promise in the state constitution. “NC Promise is a piece of legislation that I think represents the commitment of our legislators to make an education as free… READ MORE
ECU’s late-night professor
GREENVILLE – One night last October, a group of students gathered in the library at East Carolina University to prepare for an accounting exam the next day – but they hit a roadblock with one problem. So they decided to email their professor, Dr. Douglas Schneider, at 10:46 p.m. Little did they expect what happened… READ MORE
ECU: Putting doctors into rural NC
GREENVILLE – ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton is proud that ECU’s Brody School of Medicine puts more primary-care doctors into rural and underserved areas than any other medical school in the state – and more than all but one other school in the nation. “If North Carolina didn’t have ECU, it’d be in a world of… READ MORE
ECU: ‘America’s next great national university’
GREENVILLE – In part because of the region East Carolina University serves, Chancellor Cecil Staton makes a bold claim. “We have been bold at ECU to say that we are America’s next great national university,” Staton says in the accompanying video. “We really want to become a national model in all the ways that we… READ MORE
ECU: ‘No greater return on investment’
GREENVILLE – East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton isn’t shy about saying ECU serves rural and underserved parts of North Carolina. “I like to say, if North Carolina didn’t have ECU, it would have to go out and build it tomorrow,” Staton says in the accompanying video. He goes on to highlight various aspects in… READ MORE
‘We’ve got to find the resources’ for ECU financial aid
GREENVILLE – Almost 11,000 of East Carolina University’s 29,000 students come from North Carolina’s poorest counties. “Obviously those students are going to come in the door with greater financial need,” ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton says in the accompanying video. “It’s something we’re passionate about at ECU. We’ve got to find the resources – because I… READ MORE
Video: Superintendent Mark Byrd – Support Wilkes County Students
Spellings: “Power up” on financial aid
CHAPEL HILL – The UNC System’s strategic plan aims to get more rural, low-income, minority and first-generation students to earn a college degree or credential. But one of the most powerful tools to drive student access and achieve those goals, need-based aid, has remained flat in the state budget since 2013-14, even as enrollment has… READ MORE
Get an ECSU aviation degree – even from a submarine
ELIZABETH CITY – When it comes to meeting students where they are, not many institutions go as deep as Elizabeth City State University. Elizabeth City is within 50 miles of the massive Norfolk Naval Station. In the accompanying video, Dr. Kuldeep Rawat, Director of ECSU’s Aviation Science Program, explains how the university is working with… READ MORE
Elizabeth City State turns the corner
ELIZABETH CITY – Things are looking up at Elizabeth City State University. Over a six-year period from 2010 to 2016, the small HBCU in Northeastern North Carolina saw enrollment fall from more than 3,100 to 1,357.1 At one point in an early draft of the 2014-15 state budget, leaders in the NC Senate even proposed… READ MORE
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