RALEIGH – Raises for faculty and staff are at the top of the NC Community Colleges’ legislative agenda this year. “We’re the third-largest system in the country, yet our faculty and staff – those individuals that day in and day out provide educational instruction to our students – rank 41st in the nation (in pay),”… READ MORE
Know it – and communicate it
WINSTON-SALEM – Instructors in the arts need to know their field – but they also need to know how to communicate it to students, which can be a different challenge altogether. “At the end of the day, our job is to prepare students for professional careers in the arts,” UNC School of the Arts Interim… READ MORE
Be a butterfly at Western
CULLOWHEE – For Dr. Carmen Huffman, the chemistry lab never stands still. “Each student has unique strengths and weaknesses, and I love working with them on their own personal journeys of learning chemistry and developing as a lifelong learner,” she said. “Each day, I learn more chemistry, I learn more about education, and I learn… READ MORE
‘One of the most honorable and humbling professions’
DURHAM – Dr. Peggy Whiting calls teaching “one of the most honorable and humbling professions.”1 Which makes it especially fitting that she was honored and humbled this year to receive the Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Whiting is a professor at North Carolina Central University’s School of Education, where she works… READ MORE
Teaching from the headlines at Fayetteville State
FAYETTEVILLE – Heather Griffiths almost missed out on becoming a professor. “I worked two or three jobs at a time to pay for college,” she recalled in an interview this year. “I didn’t think I could afford grad school.” Luckily, the sociology major found her way into a stipend-supported graduate program and kept on studying…. READ MORE
Faculty raises welcome, but won’t stem poaching
RALEIGH (June 29, 2016) – The $22.3 billion budget for 2016-17 that state legislators are moving to approve this week offers stable funding for state universities and community colleges, but it fails yet again to make investments in faculty sufficient to keep our campuses competitive. The budget cuts income taxes by $145 million by raising… READ MORE
Making “Orgo” accessible at UNC-CH
CHAPEL HILL – Few classes in undergraduate life are as dreaded as organic chemistry. It is the gatekeeper class, the prerequisite that guards pre-med majors, pharmacy programs, and a host of other high-demand scientific fields. “Orgo,” as students tend to call it, is rarely beloved. Which is one of the reasons UNC Chapel Hill… READ MORE
Not a profession but a passion
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
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
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