DOBSON – Grow grapes from tobacco soil?  They said it couldn’t be done. But construction and real-estate developers Charlie and Ed Shelton believed the red clay of the Yadkin Valley shares ...

DOBSON – Lory Puckett knows that if she could do it, so can others. Puckett, a nursing instructor at Surry Community College, is very literally a master of her craft.  She ...

CHARLOTTE – In August, UNC Charlotte launched the first of its kind in the nation – a high school and early college for 9th graders who want to become teachers. As ...

CHARLOTTE – North Carolina is now the 9th largest state in America – yet it saw a 30% decline in enrollment in the state’s colleges of education from 2010-2015.1 “There’s a ...

CHARLOTTE – Most of us had a favorite teacher – one who made a difference in our lives. Dean Ellen McIntyre of the Cato College of Education at UNC Charlotte talks ...

By ROBERT INGRAM and ROGER PERRY DURHAM – As we embark on the recruitment of Amazon, it’s important to remember an important history lesson. There’s no question our local universities played a ...

CHARLOTTE – A burgeoning city demands a burgeoning university – and North Carolina’s largest city has one. “From the beginning, going all the way back to our founding in 1946 … ...

CHARLOTTE – The fastest-growing campus in the UNC System has energy.  But with that growth come challenges. “We have gained about 4,600 students since 2009,” UNC Charlotte Chancellor Philip Dubois says ...

CHARLOTTE – Not everyone takes a straight-line path to a college degree. At the ‘Aim Higher, Achieve More’ forum hosted recently by the Higher Education Works Foundation, UNC System President Margaret ...

CHARLOTTE (Oct. 4, 2017) – Sure, higher education benefits the student who earns a diploma. But it also helps the rest of us. “It’s also a public good,” Margaret Spellings, President of ...