RALEIGH – Online course offerings have improved dramatically since UNC System campuses abruptly shifted classes online last spring. But NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says they can still get better. “You can create very rich course content and very meaningful experiences for students in laboratory settings, etc., through the virtual environment,” Woodson says in… READ MORE

RALEIGH – NC State University learned quite a bit about managing through the coronavirus pandemic this fall. “The first thing we learned is that we can educate students safely in the classroom,” NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson says in the accompanying video. There wasn’t a single case of community spread in the university’s classrooms or… READ MORE

RALEIGH – The biggest heartache of fall semester, NC State University Chancellor Randy Woodson says, was telling students to go home after they’d lived on campus just three weeks. “It’s that first few weeks of school where you make new friends, you build community – and our students didn’t have time to do that,” Woodson… READ MORE

RALEIGH – The on-campus college experience is very important to Randy Woodson. The university will start early, forego fall break and end the semester by Thanksgiving in an effort to keep students from traveling widely and then return to campus, NC State University’s Chancellor says in the accompanying video from a Zoom interview. Students and… READ MORE