’What Makes a Great University’ is a look at what makes North Carolina’s public universities great and what it will take to make them greater. In coming months, the series will visit each of our public universities and explore them in depth..
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CHARLOTTE – Not everyone takes a straight-line path to a college degree. At the ‘Aim Higher, Achieve More’ forum hosted recently by the Higher Education Works Foundation, UNC System President Margaret ...Read more - UNC’s ‘uncommon education to the common man’CHAPEL HILL – In June, a foundation established by the late owner of the Washington Redskins awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $1 million for its efforts ...Read more
- Building – quite literally – on UNC researchSANFORD (Aug. 9, 2017) – UNC Chapel Hill and biopharmaceutical giant Pfizer offered a textbook example this week of the value of university research – and not just in Research ...Read more
- Fayetteville State: New definition of an HBCUFAYETTEVILLE – Yes, Fayetteville State University considers itself a Historically Black College and University. But the definition of an HBCU is expanding, Chancellor James Anderson says in the accompanying video. “We like to ...Read more
- FSU: “Necessary in their life”FAYETTEVILLE – Chancellor James Anderson readily acknowledges an interdependence between Fayetteville State University and the surrounding community. The university is certainly a local economic driver – one study found it produces an ...Read more
- Graduate from FSU in one year – at 18?FAYETTEVILLE – Chancellor James Anderson wants more students like Mikayla Raines and more faculty members like Dr. Carole Weatherford. Anderson likes to highlight exceptional students and faculty at Fayetteville State University. In ...Read more
- Fayetteville State: Thinking way beyond traditional missionFAYETTEVILLE – Fayetteville State University is stepping it up. “We’ve been able to wed our great historical legacy and our tradition and our founding values with what we know we need to ...Read more
- Signature online programs at FSUFAYETTEVILLE – Chancellor James Anderson is intent on building Fayetteville State University’s academic reputation. And perhaps because it has a significant number of military students seeking new ways to access an education, ...Read more
- FSU and the military: A growing relationshipFAYETTEVILLE – When the world’s biggest military base is just a mile away, it’s bound to play a role at a local university. And Fayetteville State University continues to build its relationship ...Read more
- Making this a better world at UNC AshevilleASHEVILLE – There’s a reason The Princeton Review ranked UNC Asheville as the No. 1 school in the country last year for “Making an Impact.” “Students here take it seriously,” Chancellor Mary ...Read more
