RALEIGH (September 1, 2022) – More than 1.3 million students started the public school year in North Carolina this week. Yet more than 4,400 teachers who should have been at the front of those children’s classes weren’t there, because school officials couldn’t fill the vacancies. And 3,600 more teachers across the state still aren’t fully… READ MORE
Baccalaureate blues
By Buck Goldstein and Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (September 1, 2022) –Toward the end of the 2020 book Deaths of Despair, about the startling decline in life expectancy that began in the United States even before the Covid pandemic, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case identified a troubling chasm in American society. “The sharp… READ MORE
Volety: ‘Fantastic’ marine science at UNCW
WILMINGTON (August 24, 2022) – The science of our coast is, as you might expect, quite complicated. And it affects many, many of our lives, UNC Wilmington Chancellor Aswani Volety says in the accompanying video. For starters, Volety says, whether it’s for business, recreation or transportation purposes, more than half the U.S. population lives within… READ MORE
Davidson-Davie: Lions and tigers and sharks!
THOMASVILLE (August 24, 2022) – We don’t often think about what’s needed to work in a zoo or aquarium. But Davidson-Davie Community College is one school that offers instruction in both. The college’s Zoo & Aquarium Science program is one of just two in the country offered by a community college, Davidson-Davie President Darrin Hartness… READ MORE
Will the NC Chamber walk the walk?
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK (August 11, 2022) – There were lots of nice words at the NC Chamber’s annual Education and the Workforce Conference last week – lots of great ideas shared. Which made it that much more difficult to square with the Chamber’s actions the week before. First, though, some of those ideas: Durham Tech… READ MORE
Leatherwood: 5 winning strategies for community college presidents
Above: Dr. Laura B. Leatherwood, president of Blue Ridge Community College, discusses workforce development strategies with state and college leaders. (Photo by: Benjamin Rickert, July 2022) By Dr. Laura B. Leatherwood FLAT ROCK (August 17, 2022) – Education is a pillar of our society, bringing innovation and knowledge to every area of need. This means… READ MORE
Don Martin: A middle ground on teacher pay plan?
EDITOR’S NOTE: With school set to resume soon across North Carolina with thousands of teaching positions still vacant1 and a new pay plan being floated for K-12 teachers, Don Martin, retired superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, shares his views about the plan. WINSTON-SALEM (August 10, 2022) – In 2020, the Forsyth County Commissioners asked… READ MORE
UNCW: ‘Education is personal for me’
WILMINGTON (August 3, 2022) – We don’t often get to ask both an educator from Brazil and an educator from India what they think of U.S. higher education. But our interviews this summer with outgoing UNC Wilmington Chancellor Jose “Zito” Sartarelli and incoming Chancellor Aswani Volety provided just such an opportunity. We weren’t sure what… READ MORE
NC business leaders: Fund the Leandro plan
(August 4, 2022) RALEIGH – More than 50 North Carolina business leaders asked the NC Supreme Court last week to uphold a lower court’s order last fall directing state officials to transfer more than $700 million to improve the state’s public schools. The “friend of the court” brief1 is part of the 28-year-old Leandro case… READ MORE
Woodson: Engineering NC’s Future
RALEIGH (July 27, 2022) – As the 9th-largest state in the country, and with companies like Apple, Google, Fujifilm Diosynth, Boom Supersonic and Toyota headed here, North Carolina simply needs more engineers. NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson makes the case in the accompanying video. “The whole notion of producing the talented workforce is at… READ MORE
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