2017 has been a year of higher expectations for higher education in North Carolina: With guidance from President Margaret Spellings, the UNC Board of Governors adopted a strategic plan, Higher Expectations, which places an emphasis on building more “on-ramps” for rural, low-income and first-generation students. Education leaders faced other challenges as well – and the… READ MORE
NCCU: Jobs of the future and students for the workforce
DURHAM – For Chancellor Johnson O. Akinleye, North Carolina Central University is a great university for a number of reasons: Strong faculty. Talented, intelligent students. And an impressive set of academic offerings. “We have a great flagship law school. We have two major research institutes that you don’t often find on a campus of our… READ MORE
Growing demand for nurses
DOBSON – There’s little doubt there are jobs waiting for nursing students. “Demand is huge,” Lory Puckett, a nursing instructor at Surry Community College, declares in the accompanying video. “The demand in nursing has always been there, and it’s going to continue to be there, because we have an aging population,” Puckett says. “…So with… READ MORE
Nursing degrees explained
DOBSON – The sea of letters can seem baffling – LPN, RN, FNP, CMA…. “Whenever you go into an office, you’re going to see a lot of different faces, and not everyone who brings you back is necessarily a nurse,” Nursing Instructor Lory Puckett of Surry Community College says in the accompanying video. Puckett explains… READ MORE
High demand = high pay for nurses
DOBSON – High demand usually means high pay – and depending on their skills and experience, some nurses enjoy very comfortable wages. A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) with a one-year degree might start at $15 to $18 an hour, Nursing Instructor Lory Puckett says in the accompanying video. With a two-year associate degree, Registered Nurses… READ MORE
47% transfer students at UNC Charlotte
CHARLOTTE – There’s more and more talk these days of students starting their post-secondary education at a community college, then transferring to a four-year university. And UNC Charlotte Chancellor Philip Dubois welcomes it. “Of our incoming class of new students … about 47 percent are transfer students,” Dubois says in the accompanying video. “And those transfer… READ MORE
Wake up, Charlotte – here they come!
CHARLOTTE – UNC Charlotte calls itself North Carolina’s urban research university – and it will feel even more urban next spring when light rail connects center-city Charlotte with campus. “We just think it’s going to be a tremendous opportunity for the city to get to know us – particularly coming out for athletic events like… READ MORE
Closing the ‘interest gap’
CHARLOTTE – We hear a lot about the skills gap – people without jobs and jobs without people. But in the accompanying video, Jennifer Haygood, Acting President of the NC Community College System, describes what’s known as the “interest gap” – a lack of interest in or awareness of the jobs available with an industry… READ MORE
Welding at Surry – ‘the sky’s the limit’
DOBSON – The welding shop at Surry Community College is a study in supply and demand – and the upshot is high wages for welders the college trains. Five-and-a-half years ago, Surry had 12 welding students, President David Shockley says in the accompanying video. Then a company arrived nearby that needed welders – and today… READ MORE
What motivates someone to teach?
CHARLOTTE – The pay isn’t much. The working conditions can be rough. Yet some feel driven to teach. “Teaching is one of the most important professions right now,” Dean Ellen McIntyre of UNC Charlotte’s Cato College of Education says in the accompanying video. “There’s really hardly a profession as important and as honorable.” State officials… READ MORE
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