Former Gov. Jim Hunt Former North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt worked with UNC President-Elect Margaret Spellings when she was an education advisor for then-Gov. George W. Bush of Texas in the late 1990s. The two states were in a friendly competition to see which could raise test scores fastest – especially among low-income students. Hunt… READ MORE
Too important
Yes – it was a tumultuous, divisive search with too many political overtones. But it is time to close ranks behind Margaret Spellings, whom the UNC Board of Governors has selected as the next President of the University of North Carolina System. The stakes are too high to do otherwise: The futures of 220,000 students,… READ MORE
Faculty Assembly Chair: Trouble at all levels with recruitment, retention
Dr. Stephen Leonard, professor of political science at UNC Chapel Hill, is serving his second year as chair of the UNC System’s Faculty Assembly. He represents more than 16,000 professors across North Carolina’s public universities. Leonard sat down with the Higher Education Works Foundation to talk about the importance of recruiting and retaining high-quality faculty…. READ MORE
Brilliance in our midst
CHAPEL HILL – Aziz Sancar, the UNC-Chapel Hill scientist who just won the Nobel Prize in chemistry along with Duke scientist Paul Modrich, is paid $103,000 a year by the state. 1 And Silicon Valley venture capitalist Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital recently told a Triangle audience that Stanford’s president isn’t looking to Harvard or… READ MORE
VIDEO: Reynolds CEO: One company’s reliance on NC higher ed
WINSTON-SALEM – Partnerships between the business world and academia take many, many forms. In the accompanying video, Susan Cameron, the President and CEO of Reynolds American, Inc., details one company’s reliance on higher education in North Carolina. Cameron describes Reynolds’ long relationship with agronomy research at NC State University, its support for scholarships at Winston-Salem… READ MORE
VIDEO: Bringing the Big Top to Reynolds
ROSS: Faculty salaries a “glaring weakness” for North Carolina
CHAPEL HILL (Oct. 10, 2015) – University of North Carolina System President Tom Ross told a roomful of supporters Saturday that North Carolina’s public universities weathered the recession quite well — with one major exception. “We’ve fallen behind in faculty salaries, and we’re falling farther behind,” Ross said. “We’ve got a problem there we have… READ MORE
PHINEAS’ STORY: UNC Lineberger immunotherapy makes one happy 6-year-old
CHAPEL HILL – Two years ago, Carlos and Tina Sandi faced a fear that was all too familiar – the fear of losing a child to cancer. Their 4-year-old son, Phineas, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Their daughter, Althea, had been diagnosed with a different form of leukemia six years earlier and died from… READ MORE
VIDEO: Randy Woodson on NC State and Agriculture
Agriculture remains North Carolina’s biggest industry – 80 billion dollars a year big. In the accompanying video, NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson talks about the technology – much of it developed at NC State – that supports modern agriculture. He also discusses the demands created by a global population projected to grow by 2-1/2… READ MORE
SWEET POTATOES: NCSU finds new homes for an old friend
Sweet potatoes are a traditional crop in North Carolina – the state leads the nation in sweet potato production, and the sweet potato is even recognized as the state vegetable. In the accompanying video, Chancellor Randy Woodson talks about NC State University’s efforts to make nutrient-rich sweet potatoes available to people around the globe, and… READ MORE
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