DURHAM (August 21, 2019) – Most of us know North Carolina has shifted from an economy based on textiles and furniture to one increasingly dominated by employers like Biogen that require workers to have a degree or credential. What fewer know is that North Carolina is not producing educated workers quickly enough to fill those… READ MORE
DURHAM (August 21, 2019) – To fix North Carolina’s leaky education pipeline, we need to start at the beginning: Pre-kindergarten. “It lays the foundation for third-grade reading proficiency,” Jim Hansen, PNC Bank’s Regional President for Eastern North Carolina, told the NC Chamber’s Education & Workforce Conference yesterday. Hansen is part of a group of executives… READ MORE
By Jane StancillExecutive Director of CommunicationsNC Community College System RALEIGH (August 14, 2019) – This week, the NC Community College System launches its first statewide marketing campaign, communicating with one voice about the value of community colleges. Funded initially with private support from the NC Community Colleges Foundation and the John M. Belk Endowment, the… READ MORE
ASHEVILLE – Nancy J. Cable suspected she’d like being UNC Asheville’s chancellor. But it’s even better than she thought. “This is a gem within the UNC System, and it’s been known a long time as a gem,” Cable says in the accompanying video, citing UNC Asheville’s strength in academics and the humanities in particular. The… READ MORE
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – At its campus in Research Triangle Park, Cisco Systems had a goal of zero waste. But it also had a cafeteria that generated 15,000 paper plates and plastic utensils a week as garbage. So the Fortune 500 company turned to the Mechatronics Engineering program at UNC Asheville for help. And a… READ MORE
CHAPEL HILL – Research at UNC-Chapel Hill means both big dollars and big impact in North Carolina and around the globe. “Here at Carolina, we’re proud of the fact that we’re now the fifth-leading research university in the nation,” Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video. “We’ll top $1 billion in research expenditures… READ MORE
A pair of recent studies reaffirm the value of a college education – both to the individual graduate and to states that maintain strong financial support for higher education. In an update to a 2014 study, Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that while rising tuition… READ MORE
Some North Carolinians are celebrating that the state’s business climate was recently ranked No. 3 in the nation by CNBC1 – and they should. The state improved from a rank of 9th in CNBC’s 2018 rankings.2 Of course, North Carolina is no stranger to top rankings Forbes ranked North Carolina the top state for business in… READ MORE
CHAPEL HILL – The NC General Assembly and Gov. Roy Cooper adopted an ambitious goal: To provide an additional 400,000 North Carolinians with degrees or high-quality credentials by 2030 beyond those who are already expected to earn degrees or credentials.1 “The goal of myFutureNC is by the year 2030, to have 2 million people (ages… READ MORE
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