- Help a student finishRALEIGH (May 15, 2024) – It might be a car repair. Or a student has a child. Or they suddenly face medical bills. Or trouble with child care. Any number of ...Read more
- Nonprofit urges support for better NC teacher payRALEIGH (May 10, 2024) – A new statewide campaign from a nonprofit group aims to build support for state legislators to significantly raise teacher pay in North Carolina. “North Carolinians value ...Read more
- Don’t short-circuit chancellor searchRALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – There’s a process to choose chancellors at UNC System campuses. Follow it. If there was any doubt university leadership has become hyper-politicized in recent years, state House ...Read more
- No. 1 in business, No. 38 in teacher payRALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – The good news: North Carolina is improving its pitiful starting pay for public school teachers. The bad news: North Carolina has still slipped compared to other ...Read more
- Protesters crossed a lineCHAPEL HILL (May 2, 2024) – Pro-Palestinian protesters crossed a line Tuesday. Yes, in response to atrocities committed by the militant group Hamas, Israelis have engaged in quite literal overkill among ...Read more
- Will legislators listen to Cooper? Good luck.RALEIGH (May 2, 2024) – In a state where 10,000+ teachers – 11.5% – left its public schools in 2023,1 Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a budget last week to rebuild ...Read more
- PAY our teachers!RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – The NC General Assembly is back this week for its so-called “short” session to make adjustments for the second year of the state budget. And boy, ...Read more
- Board of Governors: Please hit pauseBy Dr. Barbara K. Rimer Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL (April 25, 2024) – I am not a Tar Heel born and bred, as ...Read more
- Questions on DEI: What’s changed?RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – As we approach a vote by the UNC Board of Governors next month to repeal a 2019 policy that requires UNC campuses to hire diversity ...Read more
- Ramsey on UNCSA: “Both industry and artistry”EDITOR’S NOTE: UNC Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey shared the following remarks about the UNC School of the Arts at the Board’s meeting there last week. WINSTON-SALEM (April 18, 2024) ...Read more