CHAPEL HILL (January 25, 2019) – Using summer school to graduate on time, retaining the best instructors, supporting community-college transfers and a $4.4 billion backlog in building repairs and renovations ...

CHAPEL HILL – As she prepares to depart as President of the University of North Carolina System, there are a few things Margaret Spellings wants North Carolinians to know. “While the ...

CHAPEL HILL – Just one year into implementation of its Higher Expectations strategic plan, the University of North Carolina System has already exceeded its five-year goal for improving graduation rates. While ...

CHAPEL HILL – There’s plenty of hand-wringing these days over North Carolina’s rural-urban divide. But the chairman of the UNC System’s governing board sees a solution in the state’s colleges ...

CHAPEL HILL – Margaret Spellings gets higher education – she champions the education of a broader cross-section of North Carolinians. Regrettably, though, Spellings announced last week that she will leave next ...

RALEIGH – Perhaps because it has a constitutional mandate for it, North Carolina is known across the country for strong support of its public universities.  The state continues to rank ...

Good governance can take many shapes and forms, depending on the organization and circumstance, and is not always easy to see or detect. Bad governance is different – like many ...

CHAPEL HILL – Dick Spangler understood the role our public universities play in North Carolina – and why it’s essential that all North Carolinians have access to them. Clemmie Dixon Spangler ...

CHAPEL HILL – The new Chair of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors sees no shortage of priorities to improve the UNC System. “The biggest focus will be moving ...

CHAPEL HILL – The new Chair of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors pictures big things from the UNC System online, not unlike the massive offerings of Arizona ...