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Peers across the UNC system

Context is everything, and we have to look at whether ECU’s practices stand out amongst the system’s 16 universities. Compared with co-flagships UNC Chapel Hill and NC State, it does. Chapel Hill for the fall 2024 cohort offered admission to 15.3% of the 65,334 recent high school grads who put...

By Ray Gronberg

November 12, 2024

NCInnovation adds to campus hub network

NCInnovation and the UNC System have nearly doubled the number of system universities that are functioning as hubs for the effort to bolster the commercialization of faculty research. Appalachian State, Fayetteville State and UNC Wilmington are joining a network that already included East Carolina, UNC Charlotte, N.C. A&T State and...

By Ray Gronberg

November 1, 2024

Woodson touts NC State’s economic contributions

NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson’s final fall address to the campus community on Wednesday was a victory lap for a tenure that’s seen the university rise in the national spotlight. Woodson underscored that NCSU plays a key role in driving the state’s economy forward, working with other agencies to help...

By Ray Gronberg

October 31, 2024

State channeling aid to Helene-affected UNC students

Legislators and UNC System officials are trying to help students of the system’s three western universities with their bills in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The second-round relief package included a $5.5 million allocation that will cover spring tuition (or its in-state equivalent) for all students at UNC Asheville, the...

By Ray Gronberg

October 30, 2024

ECU moves out provost, top lawyer

There’s been a big shakeup in East Carolina University’s senior staff, with Chancellor Philip Rogers announcing on Thursday that he’s replaced the institution’s provost and general counsel. In an email to ECU faculty and staff, Rogers said he’s installed music professor Chris Buddo as interim provost and made Meagan Kiser...

By Ray Gronberg

October 25, 2024

Project Kitty Hawk

The UNC System says 558 students are enrolled in online degree programs that its member schools have created with help from an initiative the legislature funded with $97 million n 2021. The programs are the early fruit of partnerships N.C. Central, East Carolina and Appalachian State universities struck with Project...

By Ray Gronberg

October 21, 2024

NC Promise: Not for the summer?

The hold-harmless funding legislators pledged to give UNC System campuses that agreed to participate in the N.C. Promise tuition-cap program is beginning to fall a bit short. System officials are preparing to allocate a combined $78.6 million to Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State, UNC Pembroke and Western Carolina, money that’s...

By Ray Gronberg

October 14, 2024

WCU joins App, UNC Asheville in delaying resumption of classes

Western Carolina University may have escaped damage from Hurricane Helene, but so many employees are coping with the storm’s fallout that the institution is waiting until at least Oct. 21 to resume classes. “In Cullowhee, we operate in a little bit of a bubble,” Provost Richard Starnes told campus trustees...

By Ray Gronberg

October 4, 2024

South Carolina’s school-voucher ruling

North Carolina Democrats from Gov. Roy Cooper on down are cheering a state Supreme Court ruling in neighboring South Carolina that invalidated part of that state’s school-voucher system. “Even the conservative South Carolina Supreme Court knows private school vouchers schemes are wrong,” Cooper tweeted on Wednesday shortly after the ruling...

By Ray Gronberg

September 13, 2024

DEI reports from UNC System campuses released

UNC System campuses say they eliminated 59 positions and “realigned” 131 others in response to orders from the Board of Governors to curtail their DEI programs. Their reports left it far from clear, however, how many actual terminations resulted. In a number of cases, it appears that the primary changes...

By Welcome

September 12, 2024

Poll results on school voucher program

With the House likely to vote for the conference report on Wednesday, House Bill 10 and its expanded funding for private-school subsidies will soon be heading to the governor’s desk. A veto by Gov. Roy Cooper subsequent override votes in the House and Senate are likely, albeit perhaps not ahead...

By Ray Gronberg

September 11, 2024

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