RALEIGH (November 13, 2025) – Teacher pay remains an essential issue in North Carolina – an issue ultimately for our most precious resource: Our children. And it’s not going away. Despite its rapid growth, our state ranks an embarrassing 43rd in average K-12 teacher pay.1 It has seen ghastly attrition among its teacher workforce for… READ MORE
A Strategic Imperative: Elevate communication in higher education
By Stephanie Mahin, PhD and James H. Johnson, Jr., PhD “I need workers who can groove on ambiguity and keep the alligators off my back!” — sanitized quote from a major firm CEO. CHAPEL HILL (November 13, 2025) – In today’s polarized, uncertain, and resource-constrained environment, colleges and universities face a convergence of challenges: declining… READ MORE
Forsyth Tech: ‘Workers to fill these jobs, Day One.’
WINSTON-SALEM (November 6, 2025) – The Piedmont Triad is surging into a new era of green, fuel-efficient cars and planes. And Forsyth Tech helps supply workers to fill the new jobs. “The beauty of community colleges, especially in my opinion in North Carolina, is that we are designed to be very local. We are all… READ MORE
A Lift to prepare for college
WINSTON-SALEM (November 6, 2025) – Especially when they come from low-income families or their parents have never been to college, some students need a little extra attention and encouragement to get ready for college. “Our College Lift program is really special and it’s really unique,” Dr. Janet Spriggs, President of Forsyth Technical Community College, says… READ MORE
Time to pay attention
RALEIGH (November 6, 2025) – As of this week, we are less than a year away from the 2026 midterm elections. And you need to start paying attention. •Pay attention to the size of K-12 public school classes for your kids and grandkids. •Pay attention to what state legislators do – or more likely, don’t… READ MORE
Forsyth Tech: ‘You can find a path’
WINSTON-SALEM (October 29, 2025) – They’re called community colleges for a reason – because they meet the needs of the communities they serve in oh-so-many ways. “Sometimes people do not understand the magnitude of all of the programs and all of the things we do at Forsyth Tech,” Dr. Janet Spriggs, President of Forsyth Technical… READ MORE
Community-college salaries: ‘A workforce-development, social-mobility issue’
WINSTON-SALEM (October 29, 2025) – Forsyth Tech President Dr. Janet Spriggs eases into it. She first thanks the NC General Assembly in the accompanying video for providing enrollment growth funds for community colleges – Forsyth Tech’s enrollment was up 13% this fall alone. Yet North Carolina is a state that loves its community colleges –… READ MORE
Goldstein: Tenure keeps universities afloat and makes them great
By Buck Goldstein The need to explain academic tenure, often characterized as lifelong employment, never seems to go away. But recently, as American higher education comes under unprecedented attack, friends and colleagues repeatedly ask me to explain why tenure is a cost-efficient mechanism for recruiting, compensating and retaining the university’s most important asset. For a… READ MORE
Arizona public-school advocates: A voucher warning to NC
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works PHOENIX, AZ (October 23, 2025) – Arizona public education advocates say their state is grappling with the fallout from a voucher program without income limits – it’s caused multiple public-school closures and depleted funds for essential public services. In 2022, Arizona passed a universal voucher program – anyone could… READ MORE
Padilla: The beat goes on
By Art Padilla WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (October 23, 2025) – The mess at Carolina’s new School for Civic Life and Leadership goes on. And on. The creation of the new school is an experiment that has proven to be a bad idea. Not least among the school’s problems are its vague and unrealistic goals. This is… READ MORE
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