As the state House and Senate try to reconcile their respective budget plans, one thing is clear: The plan adopted by the House is the best budget for higher education in North Carolina in at least five years. Attention in recent days has focused on the Senate’s budget proposal, which would shrink the size of… READ MORE
NC Senate budget less friendly to Universities
RALEIGH (Jun. 18, 2015) – The $21.5 billion state budget approved this week by the NC Senate would provide for additional students and address long-postponed maintenance of University buildings. But the Senate’s operating budget for universities remains less generous than the one approved last month by the state House. Negotiators from both chambers will now… READ MORE
VIDEO: Chancellor Randy Woodson on the demand for NC State engineers
A state with 10 million people that now ranks 9th-largest in the country has a growing demand for engineers, NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. As state legislators ponder whether to provide $77 million in bonds for a new engineering building at NC State, roads and infrastructure demand civil engineers…. READ MORE
VIDEO: Chancellor Randy Woodson on NC State’s economic impact
Engineers. Computer scientists. High-tech agriculture. Energy. Because it is an “applied” university, NC State helps fuel today’s North Carolina economy, Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. “Our students get jobs. They get meaningful jobs. And it translates into value to the economy,” Woodson says. In fact, NC State pumps $6.5 billion a year… READ MORE
Top-Notch Public Universities Need Business Support
By James Leutze Given the state’s phenomenal growth over the last few generations, it isn’t surprising that more than half of North Carolinians today have no memory of what the University of North Carolina was prior to 1962. It would be natural to think it has always been a nationally-recognized center of academic excellence. Not… READ MORE
Student Debt: “This huge albatross around their neck.”
North Carolina has long prided itself on keeping tuition and student debt low at our state universities — in fact, the state constitution requires the legislature to keep tuition as close to free as “practicable.” But as student debt at North Carolina’s public universities approaches the national average – and the percentage of students who… READ MORE
“Education IS Economic Development”
At a forum co-sponsored by Higher Education Works and the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle, NC Community College System President Scott Ralls describes the historic connection between education and economic development in North Carolina. “We had a governor back in the 1950s who had two crazy ideas – one was to create a major… READ MORE
House Budget a Breath of Fresh Air
RALEIGH (May 22, 2015) – A University budget that grows by $139 million, or 5.3%, as the overall budget grows by 6.3% is a welcome change in the spending plan for 2015-16 that the N.C. House approved early Friday.1 “It stops the cutting and begins to reverse the trend that began with the Great Recession,”… READ MORE
ECU’s Brody School of Medicine a Worthy Investment in Primary Care
By Brad Wilson There is not much use debating the value of preventive health care. Science and data show us that it’s better for our physical, emotional and financial health to live a healthy lifestyle than to treat conditions once we are sick. To cite but one data source among many, the Trust for America’s… READ MORE
NC Senator Jeff Tarte: Seamless Higher Ed
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – At an event co-sponsored by Higher Education Works and the Harvard Club, state Sen. Jeff Tarte shares a real-life example of “student swirl” – the rotation of students between different institutions of higher education. Tarte, R-Mecklenburg, underscores the importance of seamless transitions between community colleges and universities, and between different campuses… READ MORE
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