CHAPEL HILL – What makes the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill great? “It’s just a joyful place,” Chancellor Carol Folt says in the accompanying video.  “When the students are ...

North Carolinians have long insisted that access and affordability are essential to higher education in our state.  That’s true, but increasingly, completion is just as important – not just getting ...

Matching Students to Opportunity: Expanding College Choice, Access, & Quality Edited by Andrew P. Kelly, Jessica S. Howell, and Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj Harvard Education Press, 2016. By Eric Johnson Contributing Editor  Our country leaves a lot ...

CHAPEL HILL – Access and affordability are hallmarks at UNC Chapel Hill – so much so that Chancellor Carol Folt refers to them as “part of our DNA.”1 “We do make ...

CHAPEL HILL – More than a decade ago, UNC-Chapel Hill was the first public university in America to guarantee low-income students they could graduate with no debt. “The Carolina Covenant is ...

WINSTON-SALEM – The UNC School of the Arts wins high praise – not just as an arts school, but as a degree-granting university. Yet salaries for its teachers fall far short ...

WINSTON-SALEM – When Susan Ruskin came to the UNC School of the Arts, she found a hive of cultural energy. “I found it to be a place that was extremely exciting ...

WINSTON-SALEM – Instructors in the arts need to know their field – but they also need to know how to communicate it to students, which can be a different challenge ...

CHARLOTTE – The man who built Bank of America says North Carolina’s community colleges have been vital to the state’s business community – and to his own career. Community colleges serve ...

Across the world, countries from Norway to Japan have been making generational leaps in college completion. In Ireland, barely 24% in the 55-64 age group have earned a degree after high ...