RALEIGH – When Jeff Joines was an undergraduate at NC State University, IBM kept making him job offers – offers that would seem a dream to many electrical engineers. But Joines kept putting off Big Blue. Then one of his professors encouraged Joines – son of a 7th-grade English teacher – to teach. “You know… READ MORE
Teacher and student
PINEHURST – Ed Spitler started out as a community college student. And through five degrees and 19 years teaching civil engineering technology and surveying, that’s where his heart remains. Spitler, a Sandhills Community College alumnus, began teaching at Sandhills in 1997 after he earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering Technology at UNC Charlotte. He… READ MORE
Reward teachers at every level
The $22.2 billion budget proposal adopted last week by the NC Senate offers generous raises to public school teachers that average 6.5%.1 The move is part of an effort to raise average teacher salaries to $54,000 over two years, and K-12 teachers – many of them graduates of our state’s public universities – deserve those… READ MORE
Not your typical math teacher
DURHAM – For 12 years, Philip Rash has helped some of the state’s most promising high schoolers tackle some of the world’s toughest math challenges. As a teacher at the NC School of Science and Mathematics, he has taught everything from precalculus to combinatorics (the study of countable discrete structures). Along the way, Rash has… READ MORE
Spellings on K-12 teacher prep: We’re in this together
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
‘Stagnant’ salaries: Time to invest in human capital
RALEIGH – We agreed last week to invest in physical capital for North Carolina’s public universities and community colleges, approving $2 billion in bonds by a 2-to-1 margin. Now it’s time to invest in human capital as well. When state legislators return to Raleigh next month for their session to adjust the state budget, they… READ MORE
A popular math teacher?
PEMBROKE – Math teachers don’t often win popularity contests. Across the UNC system, mathematics is among the most challenging disciplines, with courses in calculus and statistics reporting some of the highest failure rates. So it’s striking to read a flood of glowing student comments about Dr. Steven Bourquin, chair of UNC Pembroke’s Department of Mathematics… READ MORE
VIDEO: “Teachers who … put us on a different path”
GREENSBORO – It’s no secret – enrollment in teacher education has declined markedly across North Carolina’s public universities over the past five years. Yet nearly all of us can name a teacher who made a difference in our lives. “I think we can all go back in our early years and pick out two or… READ MORE
Lagging university benefits: “That’s real money”
CHAPEL HILL – Stagnant pay for University faculty and staff remains a major problem in North Carolina, hampering the state’s ability to hire and keep top-tier teachers and researchers. State lawmakers have offered a single 1.2% raise in the past seven years, even as other states have recruited aggressively to poach talent. But it’s more… READ MORE
UNCG Chancellor: “That’s who you want in the classroom.”
GREENSBORO – Though he’s new to campus, Chancellor Frank Gilliam of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro knows UNCG lost a star health economist to the University of Virginia. “If faculty salaries stagnate, you will have retention problems,” Gilliam says in the accompanying video. “Our faculty, the best ones, are as good as anybody… READ MORE
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