- Guskiewicz: A huge boost for NC’s economyBy Kevin Guskiewicz CHAPEL HILL (January 27, 2022) – Earlier this month, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hit an important milestone for the future of the University. Our ...Read more
- Goldstein and Barbour: Priming the economic engineThis was written collaboratively with Suzanne Barbour, Dean of the Graduate School at UNC Chapel Hill. It describes an initiative to address the career choices of graduate students who opt ...Read more
- Project Kitty Hawk takes shapeCHAPEL HILL (January 20, 2022) – With $97 million from a new state budget, Project Kitty Hawk – the UNC System’s online learning platform – is rapidly taking shape. And it ...Read more
- Campaign for Carolina reaches $4.25B goalCHAPEL HILL (January 13, 2022) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Thursday that it had met an ambitious, if not audacious, goal to raise $4.25 billion ...Read more
- Buck Goldstein: The magic of a university classroomEach fall, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz co-teaches a seminar for graduate students – professors of the future – called ‘The American Professoriate.’ The class focuses on the role ...Read more
- Our hopes for 2022RALEIGH (January 6, 2022) – North Carolina heaved a collective sigh of relief in 2021 with approval of the first state budget in three years. But enormous issues remain to ...Read more
- 2021: Return to not quite normalRALEIGH (December 29, 2021) – 2021 was slightly less chaotic than 2020, with distribution of vaccines that temporarily calmed the coronavirus pandemic before new variants began to emerge. The state also ...Read more
- Cindy Elmore: A class of ping-pong ballsBy Cindy Elmore GREENVILLE (December 17, 2021) – I remember looking with horror at my county’s vaccination rate in August when we were about to go back to teaching in-person classes ...Read more
- Wiles: Merger will not improve community collegesBy Paul Wiles WINSTON-SALEM (December 15, 2021) – Sometimes things that sound the same are not really the same at all. I would argue that when you think of higher education, ...Read more
- Art Padilla: On moving the UNC headquartersBy Dr. Art Padilla RALEIGH (December 1, 2021) – Without much discussion, even within the UNC Board of Governors itself, the NC Legislature seems intent on moving the headquarters of the ...Read more