(Oct. 6, 2020) – Let’s hear it for the little guys. As several of the UNC System’s largest institutions were forced to quickly shift classes online as the coronavirus erupted on their campuses, many of the System’s smaller institutions – including its Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) – have managed to keep the virus… READ MORE
NC higher ed must adjust
RALEIGH (Sept. 24, 2020) – Adjust – in oh so many ways. That’s what North Carolina higher education must do as it fights through the coronavirus pandemic and shifting demands and attitudes toward higher education, according to speakers in a virtual ReCONNECT to Move Forward meeting hosted by NC State University’s Institute for Emerging Issues…. READ MORE
Creating a college-going culture
RALEIGH (Sept. 24, 2020) – As much as it’s about specific policies or strategies, increasing college enrollment is about creating a college-going culture, national education leaders said in a virtual meeting hosted by NC State University’s Institute for Emerging Issues. NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson, who moderated the discussion, noted that higher education is trying… READ MORE
Pro/Con: COVID testing before a return to campus
By Rachel L. Graham, Ph.D. CHAPEL HILL – The return to campus this fall for undergraduates of the UNC System was not without questions – from students, faculty, staff, support personnel, and the communities surrounding the campuses. At UNC Chapel Hill, along with the other campuses in the UNC System, following the reduction of campus… READ MORE
Steve Farmer: No number measures a student
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 21, 2020) – When we apply to college, we obsess about numbers – GPA, SAT, ACT, class rank. But Steve Farmer sees the whole person. Not just a number. Farmer’s departure as UNC-Chapel Hill’s vice provost for enrollment and undergraduate admissions, announced Monday, is a tremendous loss for the University. A Virginia… READ MORE
Chancellor searches: Deepening or thinning the applicant pool?
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 17, 2020) – The UNC System Board of Governors voted Thursday to give UNC President Peter Hans new power to weigh in on choices of chancellors for the System’s 17 campuses. Until now, each campus’s Board of Trustees has conducted a search and recommended at least two finalists to become chancellor. The… READ MORE
Don’t short-circuit chancellor searches
(Sept. 16, 2020) – The President of the UNC System should be able to recommend candidates for chancellor at the System’s 17 institutions. But the President should not be able to dictate finalists in those searches. Currently, campus boards of trustees name search committees to interview candidates for chancellor. The campus board then recommends at… READ MORE
Why the search for a new NC Community College System president is so critical
By Breeden Blackwell and Bob Stephens The coronavirus pandemic and resulting unemployment crisis have thrown into sharp relief the value of North Carolina’s community colleges. First responders, nurses, respiratory therapists and other health care workers are largely educated at community colleges – tens of thousands of recent graduates were prepared for the front lines of… READ MORE
Reading: Not just about college. “It’s about life.”
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 3, 2020) – The ability to read by third grade is viewed as critical to college readiness. Through third grade, students learn to read, the saying goes, and after third grade they read to learn. So in a Zoom webinar hosted by Higher Ed Works, we asked our panelists why third-grade reading… READ MORE
Advice for parents in a pandemic
Parents are worried. If their young child is confined to learning from home during the coronavirus pandemic, they worry about what that child is missing without in-person, structured reading instruction. But the panelists at Higher Ed Works’ webinar on third-grade reading – all parents themselves – offered fellow parents words of encouragement and some tips… READ MORE
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