Kristin Gaddis, Executive Director, Student Support Services Yadkin County Schools shares Yadkin County, NC education successes.
Hans named NC Community College System President
RALEIGH (May 1, 2018) – The NC Board of Community Colleges named Peter Hans – once a member of the board himself, as well as a former chair of the UNC Board of Governors – as the new President of the NC Community College System today. Board Chairman Scott Shook said the board considered more… READ MORE
Video: Superintendent Mark Byrd – Challenges in Wilkes County
UNC Pembroke: An economic driver for Southeast NC
PEMBROKE – What makes the University of North Carolina at Pembroke a great university? Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings points to both its past and its future. In the accompanying video, Cummings notes how the school was first established in 1887 by seven Native American men who saw the promise of educating their children. “This was… READ MORE
UNC Pembroke and NC Promise: $500 a semester tuition
PEMBROKE – By reducing tuition to $500 a semester for in-state students at UNC Pembroke, Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings thinks state legislators are trying to abide by a promise in the state constitution. “NC Promise is a piece of legislation that I think represents the commitment of our legislators to make an education as free… READ MORE
ECU’s late-night professor
GREENVILLE – One night last October, a group of students gathered in the library at East Carolina University to prepare for an accounting exam the next day – but they hit a roadblock with one problem. So they decided to email their professor, Dr. Douglas Schneider, at 10:46 p.m. Little did they expect what happened… READ MORE
ECU: Putting doctors into rural NC
GREENVILLE – ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton is proud that ECU’s Brody School of Medicine puts more primary-care doctors into rural and underserved areas than any other medical school in the state – and more than all but one other school in the nation. “If North Carolina didn’t have ECU, it’d be in a world of… READ MORE
ECU: ‘America’s next great national university’
GREENVILLE – In part because of the region East Carolina University serves, Chancellor Cecil Staton makes a bold claim. “We have been bold at ECU to say that we are America’s next great national university,” Staton says in the accompanying video. “We really want to become a national model in all the ways that we… READ MORE
ECU: ‘No greater return on investment’
GREENVILLE – East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton isn’t shy about saying ECU serves rural and underserved parts of North Carolina. “I like to say, if North Carolina didn’t have ECU, it would have to go out and build it tomorrow,” Staton says in the accompanying video. He goes on to highlight various aspects in… READ MORE
‘We’ve got to find the resources’ for ECU financial aid
GREENVILLE – Almost 11,000 of East Carolina University’s 29,000 students come from North Carolina’s poorest counties. “Obviously those students are going to come in the door with greater financial need,” ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton says in the accompanying video. “It’s something we’re passionate about at ECU. We’ve got to find the resources – because I… READ MORE
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