RALEIGH – To lead North Carolina’s economic recovery, the state’s community colleges will need support from the General Assembly and Gov. Roy Cooper, the NC Community College System’s president says. In ...

RALEIGH – Raises for faculty and staff are at the top of the NC Community Colleges’ legislative agenda this year. “We’re the third-largest system in the country, yet our faculty and ...

CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina’s community colleges will be pivotal to meeting the state’s goal of 2 million people with degrees or high-quality credentials by 2030, says UNC System President Peter ...

RALEIGH (May 5, 2021) – When’s the last time North Carolina’s K-12 public schools, community colleges, public and private universities, as well as its business, philanthropic and faith communities, all ...

CHAPEL HILL (April 28, 2021) – Birth rates dropped during the Great Recession – many families weren’t sure of their futures. And 13 years later, colleges and universities are preparing ...

By Eric Johnson North Carolina is entering a strange economic moment. Less than a year after the sharpest recession in modern history, the state is poised for a booming recovery. After ...

CHAPEL HILL (April 22, 2021) – The UNC Board of Governors voted to name an online sports-gambling executive to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees today over the objections of prominent ...

CHAPEL HILL (April 22, 2021) – The UNC Board of Governors voted today to allow the UNC System’s five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to raise enrollment of out-of-state ...

CARY (April 14, 2021) – In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and learning losses among the state’s most vulnerable students, North Carolina needs to double down on early-childhood education ...

RALEIGH (April 9, 2021) – A proposal that surfaced last week to name state legislators to the UNC Board of Governors would further politicize a board that’s already overly politicized. It’s ...