RALEIGH (September 6, 2024) – When they return to Raleigh on Monday, state legislators have an opportunity – an opportunity to finish their job. Less than two months before Election Day – and with a billion-dollar surplus in hand – they can: Show they appreciate North Carolina teachers – who left classrooms at an alarming… READ MORE
Derelict
RALEIGH (August 22, 2024) – There’s no reason North Carolina’s community colleges should be staring at budget deficits when the state is sitting on a billion-dollar surplus. Yet they are. And it’s community-college students – the ones working to better their place in the world – who will pay the price. That’s not right. “The… READ MORE
Hopes for 2024
RALEIGH (January 4, 2024) – The 2024 elections will be important to America – and to the future of American democracy. But they also will be vitally important to the future of North Carolina and its children. From governor to state legislators to local school boards, the state’s voters will make critical choices up and… READ MORE
2023: The chaos continues
RALEIGH (December 28, 2023) – It might seem strange to complain about underfunding of public education in a year when North Carolina had a $4.8 billion budget surplus.1 But it’s true. In a year when: North Carolina ranked 50th of 50 states in the percentage of GDP it devotes to K-12 public education, The state… READ MORE
Florida-style bill would make colleges switch accreditors
RALEIGH (September 28, 2023) – Last Thursday morning, HB8 in the NC General Assembly was titled “Computer Sci. Grad. Requirement.” It required high-school students to complete a computer science course to graduate, as it had since it was filed in January.1 But by the end of the day, as most of North Carolina was sifting… READ MORE
NCCCS President Cox: ‘That’s what community colleges do, folks’
RALEIGH (April 24, 2023) – For the new president of North Carolina’s Community College System, community colleges are about meeting employers’ needs. But most important of all, they’re about economic mobility for students. Dr. Jeff Cox, currently President of Wilkes Community College, will become President on July 1 of the NC Community College System,1 which… READ MORE
Forsyth Tech: ‘It’s really at a crisis level.’
WINSTON-SALEM (March 16, 2023) – Forsyth Technical Community College President Janet Spriggs has 36 vacancies among her faculty to fill – far more than usual this time of year. And six of those positions have been vacant more than a year. Forsyth Tech has lost 58 of its 320 full-time faculty members to industry and… READ MORE
Nursing instructor shortage: Pay them.
RALEIGH (November 19, 2023) – Only through “robust resource allocation” – a polite way to say money – can North Carolina produce 50% more nursing graduates by 2028 or 2029, according to state leaders in nursing education. If the coronavirus pandemic didn’t underscore the importance of nurses – people who cared for the dreadfully sick,… READ MORE
2022: An anxious year
RALEIGH (December 29, 2022) – 2022 has been an anxious year for North Carolina. As the nation stumbled out of a pandemic, inflation spiked, interest rates rose, shortages in the state’s teaching workforce grew larger and battles over budgets – both in the legislature and in court – grew more sharply partisan. And leadership in… READ MORE
Leatherwood: Community colleges prepare health care workforce
By Dr. Laura B. LeatherwoodPresident, Blue Ridge Community College FLAT ROCK (November 23, 2022) – Educational institutions serve as a vital pipeline that feed much-needed talent into our health care system. That system is made up of a vital and complex network of individuals who safeguard the overall health and wellness of a community. For… READ MORE
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