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Caudill: If ever basic research mattered…

March 25, 2020 by Higher Ed Works 2 Comments

By W. Lowry Caudill CHAPEL HILL – We need an answer for coronavirus in a hurry.    Scientific research generally doesn’t happen in a hurry.    So thank goodness for the work Dr. Ralph Baric has done for the past six years in a secret lab at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Baric and… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, Research, UNC System

Roper: ‘Just get the budget done’

January 22, 2020 by Higher Ed Works 4 Comments

CHAPEL HILL – Legislative leaders and Gov. Roy Cooper think they’re scoring political points in their standoff over the 2019-21 state budget, which still hasn’t been adopted more than six months into the fiscal year. But as the governor and the legislature feud over Medicaid expansion and K-12 teacher pay, more than 240,000 students at… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Leadership, UNC System

UNC Presidential Search: Independence, integrity, stature

December 11, 2019 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

EDITOR’S NOTE: A delegation of Higher Ed Works board members met last week with Randy Ramsey, Chair of the UNC System Board of Governors and Co-Chair of the Board’s Presidential Search Committee; and Kim Strach, Executive Director of the Presidential Search, to discuss the search process. The following letter summarizes the group’s major points. December… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Governance, Leadership, Our Opinion, UNC System

A look at NC’s HMSIs

October 22, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Some North Carolinians aren’t familiar with our state’s Historically Minority-Serving Institutions (HMSIs) – but HMSIs are taking on growing importance in efforts to build an educated workforce in the state. UNC-TV will take a look at the educational opportunities and partnerships North Carolina’s six public HMSIs provide at 8 p.m. tonight… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, HBCU, HMSI, NCCU, North Carolina A&T, UNC System, Winston-Salem State University

RTI & University Collaboration

September 18, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – RTI International was founded 60 years ago to offer opportunities to high-level science graduates emerging from North Carolina’s universities. And those relationships continue to this day. “North Carolina universities are integral and intertwined with everything that RTI does,” Jacqueline Olich, RTI’s Senior Director of University Collaborations, says in the accompanying video…. READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Research, RTI 60th, UNC System

MyFutureNC: 2 million educated workers by 2030

July 17, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2019, Excellence, Great Universities, myFutureNC, UNC System

Roper: ‘More people graduating faster than ever’

July 17, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – The strategic plan developed by former UNC System President Margaret Spellings, Higher Expectations, talks about building more “on ramps” to higher education for underrepresented rural, minority and first-generation students. The System’s Interim President, William Roper, says he sees no need for that to change. Roper quotes Spellings’ “crisp” description of the plan… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, UNC System

Gallup finds dissatisfaction among recent UNC System grads

June 28, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – A recent Gallup survey of UNC System graduates found that almost two-thirds – 64 percent – strongly agreed that their education was worth the cost. That’s 14 points higher than the percentage of graduates nationally who feel that way. But officials would do well to study the responses of the system’s most… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, UNC System

Roper: ‘That’s all given us by research’

June 26, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – Check this on your smartphone: In the past 30 years, we’ve seen technological innovations we never could have dreamed of in health care, communications and any number of fields. “That’s all given us by research,” Interim UNC System President William L. Roper says in the accompanying video. “And we, the University of… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Leadership, Research, UNC System

Roper on containing higher ed costs

June 26, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL – Interim UNC System President William Roper knows our state’s public universities have endured budget cuts. But he also knows great organizations constantly look for ways to improve efficiency. “Higher education is expensive,” Roper says in the accompanying video. “If we were to create a great university today from scratch, I don’t think… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, Leadership, UNC System

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