RALEIGH (September 28, 2023) – Last Thursday morning, HB8 in the NC General Assembly was titled “Computer Sci. Grad. Requirement.” It required high-school students to complete a computer science course to graduate, as it had since it was filed in January.1 But by the end of the day, as most of North Carolina was sifting… READ MORE
RALEIGH (September 22, 2023) – It’s simply not enough. At a time when North Carolina children started school with 3,500 teaching positions vacant and with more than 20% of state jobs vacant,1 state legislators approved a budget today – almost three months late – that provides teachers and state employees raises of 4% this year… READ MORE
RALEIGH (September 22, 2023) – To win Medicaid expansion he has sought since he was elected, Gov. Roy Cooper agreed to make it contingent on passage of the state budget. So Republican legislators packed a whole lot of policy into the 1,400-page 2023-25 budget for Cooper to swallow. Here are some highlights – and lowlights. … READ MORE
RALEIGH (September 14, 2023) – The UNC System will hold in-state tuition constant at its 17 campuses in 2024-25 for the eighth straight year, President Peter Hans announced today. “Low tuition is at the heart of our compact with the citizens of North Carolina,” Hans told the UNC Board of Governors. “We can only be… READ MORE
By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – When it first opened in 1909, the new, two-year East Carolina Teachers Training School had a critical, if modest, goal: Train teachers for the classrooms of Eastern North Carolina. But then-former Governor Thomas Jordan Jarvis sensed even then that the tiny school might grow: “We can never… READ MORE
By Leslie Boney AYDEN (September 7, 2023) – Taylor Walden didn’t come to East Carolina University expecting to become an entrepreneur. Her family wanted her to go into health care, maybe nursing, and come back home to Winston-Salem after graduation. But early in her freshman year, people in her dorm started asking her to hand-letter… READ MORE
By Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson has made a discovery that could stop skin cancer in its tracks. The molecule she is developing in her lab at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University appears to be able to stop some melanoma cells from growing and to… READ MORE
By Leslie Boney KENANSVILLE (September 7, 2023) – You could say Jon Kornegay was born to be a rural doctor. His father was a physician in a small town in Duplin County in Eastern North Carolina. His mother was a graduate of East Carolina University’s first nurse practitioner class in 1976. But it was his… READ MORE
By Cindy Elmore, Ph.D. GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Every fall semester, I put Election Day on my syllabus calendar. Students always eagerly hope this means class is cancelled that day. It isn’t. Instead – just as I don’t want busy students to forget their upcoming quiz and assignment dates – I’m hoping they won’t… READ MORE
CHAPEL HILL (August 31, 2023) – If the killing of a professor by one of his students Monday at UNC-Chapel Hill tells us nothing else, it tells us how treacherous teaching has become in this country. We still don’t know the shooter’s motives. We still don’t fully know whether the shooter intended to kill more… READ MORE
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