BOONE – With word that NC Community College System President Scott Ralls will leave his post next fall to head a 75,000-student college in Virginia, the system’s former president says ...

In the past year, North Carolina’s public colleges and universities interacted with more than 6 million North Carolinians, reaching far beyond the 220,000 students enrolled in full-time studies. That’s because ...

As tuition continues to rise at our state’s public colleges and universities, questions persist about whether college is worth it. But a recent study answers those questions with an emphatic and ...

By Rob Christensen, The News & Observer Paul Fulton of Winston-Salem is a throwback to the era when most of North Carolina’s captains of industry were home grown and deeply involved in ...

By James Moeser, Chancellor Emeritus, UNC Chapel Hill I came to North Carolina in 2000 to be the ninth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Unlike most of ...

GREENSBORO – With 2.8 million Americans – many of them children – affected by peanut allergies, researchers at N.C. A&T State University have attacked a serious health threat and moved ...

CULLOWHEE – When the product designers at the Snap-on plant in Murphy, NC, need a full-size prototype of a new power tool, they don’t have to venture far. The students ...

In an interview with the Higher Education Works Foundation, Chancellor Carol Folt says that what sets UNC-Chapel Hill apart is its ability to keep its doors open to all qualified ...

The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere.  By Kevin Carey.  Riverhead Books, 2015. By Eric Johnson Given the ominous title, Kevin Carey’s look into the ...

By Paul Fulton Higher Education Works Two years ago, the board that oversees our state’s public universities adopted a plan with an ambitious goal:  To raise the percentage of North Carolinians with ...