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4,400 invisible teachers

September 1, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: 2022, K-12 Teacher Pay, Leandro, PreK - 12 Education, Teacher Preparation, teachers

Baccalaureate blues

September 1, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: 2022, Our Opinion

Volety: ‘Fantastic’ marine science at UNCW

August 24, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2022, UNC Wilmington

Davidson-Davie: Lions and tigers and sharks!

August 24, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2022, Davidson-Davie CC, NC Community Colleges

Will the NC Chamber walk the walk?

August 17, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2022, At Risk, Leandro, Our Opinion

Leatherwood: 5 winning strategies for community college presidents

August 17, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2022, NC Community Colleges

Don Martin: A middle ground on teacher pay plan?

August 10, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: 2022, At Risk, K-12 Teacher Pay, Our Opinion, teachers

UNCW: ‘Education is personal for me’

August 10, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2022, UNC Wilmington

NC business leaders: Fund the Leandro plan

August 4, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

(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

Filed Under: 2022, At Risk, Leandro, Our Opinion

Woodson: Engineering NC’s Future

July 27, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: 2022, NCSU

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