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November 10, 2015 by Higher Ed Works 4 Comments

When the Board of Governors that oversees North Carolina’s public universities granted raises recently to 12 chancellors, it prompted faculty across the system to ask: What about us? There is no doubt that faculty – who’ve gone seven years with just one insignificant raise – are long overdue for a raise. This year University faculty… READ MORE

November 10, 2015 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

(Click here for video of Rep. Arp discussing the bond proposal at UNC Charlotte) CHAPEL HILL – State Rep. Dean Arp (R-Union) is known as a fiscal conservative. And his strong support for a $2 billion bond package that will go to North Carolina voters in March is rooted in sound fiscal policy. Even if… READ MORE

November 3, 2015 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

To have a talented workforce for the 21st century, government, philanthropies and employers must all value higher education, Reynolds American President and CEO Susan Cameron says in the accompanying video. “There’s no greater legacy than changing lives through education,” she says. That includes making higher education available throughout a worker’s career, Cameron says – whether… READ MORE

November 3, 2015 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

Great faculty are “pivotal” to higher education, Reynolds American President and CEO Susan Cameron says in the accompanying video. “Everybody can talk about one professor where the light bulb went on,” says Cameron, herself a trustee at the University of Florida. “Great faculty can help students to find their passion – and if they find… READ MORE

October 29, 2015 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

Former Gov. Jim Hunt Former North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt worked with UNC President-Elect Margaret Spellings when she was an education advisor for then-Gov. George W. Bush of Texas in the late 1990s. The two states were in a friendly competition to see which could raise test scores fastest – especially among low-income students. Hunt… READ MORE

October 28, 2015 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

Yes – it was a tumultuous, divisive search with too many political overtones. But it is time to close ranks behind Margaret Spellings, whom the UNC Board of Governors has selected as the next President of the University of North Carolina System. The stakes are too high to do otherwise: The futures of 220,000 students,… READ MORE

October 28, 2015 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

Dr. Stephen Leonard, professor of political science at UNC Chapel Hill, is serving his second year as chair of the UNC System’s Faculty Assembly. He represents more than 16,000 professors across North Carolina’s public universities. Leonard sat down with the Higher Education Works Foundation to talk about the importance of recruiting and retaining high-quality faculty…. READ MORE

October 21, 2015 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – Aziz Sancar, the UNC-Chapel Hill scientist who just won the Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Duke scientist Paul Modrich, is paid $103,000 a year by the state. 1 And Silicon Valley venture capitalist Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital recently told a Triangle audience that Stanford’s president isn’t looking to Harvard or… READ MORE

October 21, 2015 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

WINSTON-SALEM – Partnerships between the business world and academia take many, many forms. In the accompanying video, Susan Cameron, the President and CEO of Reynolds American, Inc., details one company’s reliance on higher education in North Carolina. Cameron describes Reynolds’ long relationship with agronomy research at NC State University, its support for scholarships at Winston-Salem… READ MORE

October 21, 2015 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

When the Reynolds family gave money to build Reynolds Coliseum at NC State University, they did so on one condition – big doors. Susan Cameron, the President and CEO of Reynolds American Inc., explains the reason for that caveat in the accompanying video clip.