Rural Routes is a series that examines the many ways North Carolina’s institutions of higher education embrace and support our state’s rural communities. The series is sponsored in part by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.
- Addressing rural disparities at ECU
GREENVILLE – It’s no secret that rural North Carolina lags the state’s urban areas in education, health and economic development. But East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton aims to do something ...Read more - Rural broadband can help close the “homework gap”RALEIGH (May 29, 2018) – The NC Rural Center hears regularly from rural parents who park outside a local library or fast-food joint until 9 or 10 p.m. on weeknights ...Read more
- Hans: Community colleges ‘critical, essential’ to NC’s futureRALEIGH – The NC Community College System’s new president likes to use two words to describe community colleges’ role in North Carolina’s future: critical and essential. “When I think about North ...Read more
- ECU Dentistry: Keeping your smileGREENVILLE – In serving rural patients, Dr. Greg Chadwick sees the painful choices people without access to good dental care sometimes must make. East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine aims ...Read more
- ECU: More dentists for rural NCGREENVILLE – East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine is hailed as a national model for supplying much-needed dentists to rural communities, Chancellor Cecil Staton says. Open only since 2011,1 the dental ...Read more
- Farm Boy’s Journey: “I am the result of education”PEMBROKE – “I am the result of education,” UNC Pembroke Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings says in the accompanying video. “And that’s why I’m so committed to the power and the potential ...Read more
- UNC Pembroke: An economic driver for Southeast NCPEMBROKE – What makes the University of North Carolina at Pembroke a great university? Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings points to both its past and its future. In the accompanying video, Cummings ...Read more
- UNC Pembroke and NC Promise: $500 a semester tuitionPEMBROKE – By reducing tuition to $500 a semester for in-state students at UNC Pembroke, Chancellor Robin Gary Cummings thinks state legislators are trying to abide by a promise in ...Read more
- ECU: Putting doctors into rural NCGREENVILLE – ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton is proud that ECU’s Brody School of Medicine puts more primary-care doctors into rural and underserved areas than any other medical school in the ...Read more
- ECU: ‘America’s next great national university’GREENVILLE – In part because of the region East Carolina University serves, Chancellor Cecil Staton makes a bold claim. “We have been bold at ECU to say that we are America’s ...Read more
