- Nursing instructor shortage: Pay them.RALEIGH (November 19, 2023) – Only through “robust resource allocation” – a polite way to say money – can North Carolina produce 50% more nursing graduates by 2028 or 2029, ...Read more
- $500 tuition: ‘A success on multiple fronts’RALEIGH (January 11, 2023) – As the NC General Assembly returns today for its 2023 session, state legislators deserve credit for one good thing they’ve done for the state’s public ...Read more
- Ross & Spellings: Organize UNC System for successRALEIGH (December 1, 2022) – Two former Presidents of the UNC System who will lead a commission to assess the System’s governing structure say the panel will examine models across ...Read more
- Governor names UNC Governance Commission membersRALEIGH (November 23, 2022) – After years of turnover in leadership and political interference in the UNC System, Gov. Roy Cooper named members of his Commission on the Governance of ...Read more
- Enrollment down across UNC SystemGREENVILLE (November 17, 2022) – For the first time in nine years, the UNC System saw enrollment decline this fall, according to a new report. Because public universities currently receive state ...Read more
- UNC System: Disinvesting in public universitiesRALEIGH (October 13, 2022) – North Carolina has an ambitious goal to have 2 million people ages 25-44 with a college degree or credential by 2030. Then why do we continue ...Read more
- Hans: No UNC System tuition increase in 2023-24CHAPEL HILL (September 22, 2022) – Despite inflationary pressures and chancellors’ desire for a tuition increase, the UNC System will hold tuition for in-state undergraduates steady for a seventh straight ...Read more
- Keeping the best and brightest homeCHAPEL HILL (July 20, 2022) – An investment in some of North Carolina’s brightest high-school graduates – free tuition – is already paying off at UNC System schools. The NC School ...Read more
- Revolving-door leadershipRALEIGH (July 19, 2022) – Until the middle of the last decade, leaders of the UNC and NC Community College Systems generally stayed for five to seven years. But with the ...Read more
- UNC across the streetRALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Now we know where state legislators want to put the UNC System, NC Community College System, Department of Public Instruction and Department of Commerce. Across the ...Read more