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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

Familiar faces joining university trustee boards

Banker Hugh McColl Jr. and lobbyist David Powers are likely the most prominent names on the list of people the UNC System’s Board of Governors is preparing to appoint to campus trustee boards

By Ray Gronberg

May 25, 2023

County group objects to charter omnibus

The N.C. Association of County Commissioners says its members don’t want authority to allot capital funding to charter schools and will try to have the idea removed from omnibus legislation that the House Education - K-12committee is scheduled to review today.

By Ray Gronberg

April 25, 2023

Career planning for kids

Sixth grade isn't too soon for kids to start thinking about what they might do with their lives, in the view of the supporters of a new bill pending in the N.C. Senate.

By Ray Gronberg

March 19, 2023

Hints of a wider scope for faculty buyout fund

A proposed incentive fund to entice professors on five UNC System campuses to retire could have broader applications in the 16-university system, its CFOtold legislators on Wednesday.

By Ray Gronberg

March 19, 2023

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