In crafting the Strategic Plan, shared goals were established for moving education in the state forward, and leadership at each university worked to define specific goals based on institutional plans and priorities. The agreements make up a pact to achieve individually-defined metrics for each institution.
ECU, NC State, N.C. A&T and UNC Greensboro join prestigious NSF I-Corps program The University of North Carolina as a system has championed innovation and new start-ups for years, and four constituent institutions – East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at …
Faculty, students, public weigh in on the new NCSSM-Morganton campus Michael Martine describes his experience as an alumnus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics as “Hogwarts, before Hogwarts was ever written about.” Instead of spells and potions that the fictional Harry Potter was taught, Martine learned about science and computers with his …
UNC system institutions receive NEA funding to further arts studies Five University of North Carolina system institutions are receiving more than $200,000 in grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to create programming relating to music, art, theatre, literature and education in 2017 and 2018. Appalachian State University is receiving two NEA …
First graduates receive NCCU doctoral degrees in more than 50 years Rasheena Edmondson has long envisioned herself in a white lab coat. As a science-loving middle school student in Wilson County, N.C., she first dreamed of becoming a pharmacist. Investigating the career further, however, she had second thoughts. “I shadowed a pharmacist for a day …
McLaughlin-Smith teaches UNCW faculty and students that diversity is more than race Because Kimberly McLaughlin-Smith’s lessons in diversity on the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus are so engaging, Victor Malo-Juvera asks her to speak to his English education class every semester. But he didn’t know just how effective McLaughlin-Smith’s impact was until he ran …
Cumberland International Early College student graduates Fayetteville State at 18 Mikayla Raines was one of hundreds of Fayetteville State University students to walk across the stage at the sesquicentennial commencement to accept their degree. Raines, however, is not your typical college graduate. She was a student of the Cumberland International Early College High School at …
Turning STEM into STEAM at UNCSA by merging technology with the arts Lindsay Bierman wants to make sure his students are on the cutting edge of science and technology. At first, that might seem like an odd aspiration for the chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, whose students study everything …
Sgt. Jacob Deal of the Western Carolina University Police Department is recipient of the UNC System’s Officer of the Year Award for Outstanding and Exceptional Service in recognition of his work in campus outreach activities, including those focusing on sexual assault prevention. Deal, a member of the WCU Police Department since February 2011, received the award …
UNC campuses help rural NC areas become ‘smart and connected communities’ Arcot Rajasekar knows there’s a technology gap between North Carolina’s urban and rural communities. Rajasekar, who serves as the Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, said rural grade school students …