By Margaret Spellings President, University of North Carolina System I’m nearing the end of my first tour of our state’s public universities, and it has been a thoroughly heartening experience. On every visit, I’ve heard about the remarkable work taking place across North Carolina and seen the pride people take in our campuses. I’ve also heard… READ MORE
Spellings walks toward the protesters
Since taking office in March, University of North Carolina President Margaret Spellings has faced small but insistent protests about her perceived agenda for public higher education. And at every opportunity, she has gone out of her way to meet those protesters and talk through their concerns. It’s not easy to walk toward people who are… READ MORE
NCGAP: Right problem, wrong solution
“Right problem, wrong solution.” That’s how University of North Carolina System President Margaret Spellings sums up NCGAP, the legislature’s program to force a percentage of public university applicants to enroll in community college instead.1 She reiterated that point last week, calling on lawmakers to defer or amend the program when they return to Raleigh next… READ MORE
New Community College President a man of many hats
RALEIGH – Dr. James “Jimmie” Williamson has worn quite an assortment of hats – and he might need them all when he becomes President of the NC Community College System on July 1. Williamson, currently President and CEO of the South Carolina Technical College System, will succeed Scott Ralls, who left last year to become… READ MORE
ROSS: Ensure Spellings’ success
By Thomas W. Ross President Emeritus University of North Carolina System Almost every day, someone asks me how I feel about Margaret Spellings as my successor. After acknowledging that I would have preferred to continue in the role myself, I say to those who ask that we must all do everything in our power to… READ MORE
Welcome, President Spellings
By Paul Fulton and Brad Wilson Co-Chairs Higher Education Works The Higher Education Works family of organizations extends a warm North Carolina welcome to Margaret Spellings, who assumes office today as President of the University of North Carolina System. We hope President Spellings will nourish and protect what former President Erskine Bowles refers to as… READ MORE
SPELLINGS: “Affordability, accessibility, accountability and quality”
GREENSBORO – At a retreat last week of the Board of Governors that oversees the University of North Carolina system, President-Elect Margaret Spellings laid out her vision for the university when she takes office March 1. “We can work together to achieve an ambitious goal: to make North Carolina the nation’s leader in affordability, accessibility,… READ MORE
A Call to Lead: Public Service is a Noble Cause
Margaret Spellings, who will assume office March 1 as President of the University of North Carolina System, wrote the following essay for The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute. It is republished here with permission from the George W. Bush Institute. President Bush often reminds us that to whom much is given… READ MORE
State Leaders on Margaret Spellings
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
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