- Pro/Con: COVID testing before a return to campus
By Rachel L. Graham, Ph.D. CHAPEL HILL – The return to campus this fall for undergraduates of the UNC System was not without questions – from students, faculty, staff, support personnel, ...Read more - Steve Farmer: No number measures a student
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 21, 2020) – When we apply to college, we obsess about numbers – GPA, SAT, ACT, class rank. But Steve Farmer sees the whole person. Not just a ...Read more - Chancellor searches: Deepening or thinning the applicant pool?
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 17, 2020) – The UNC System Board of Governors voted Thursday to give UNC President Peter Hans new power to weigh in on choices of chancellors for ...Read more - Don’t short-circuit chancellor searches
(Sept. 16, 2020) – The President of the UNC System should be able to recommend candidates for chancellor at the System’s 17 institutions. But the President should not be able ...Read more - Why the search for a new NC Community College System president is so critical
By Breeden Blackwell and Bob Stephens The coronavirus pandemic and resulting unemployment crisis have thrown into sharp relief the value of North Carolina’s community colleges. First responders, nurses, respiratory therapists and other ...Read more - Reading: Not just about college. “It’s about life.”
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 3, 2020) – The ability to read by third grade is viewed as critical to college readiness. Through third grade, students learn to read, the saying goes, ...Read more - Advice for parents in a pandemic
Parents are worried. If their young child is confined to learning from home during the coronavirus pandemic, they worry about what that child is missing without in-person, structured reading instruction. But ...Read more - Special needs for higher ed in a pandemic
RALEIGH (Sept. 2, 2020) – If the last three weeks tell us anything about higher education amid a pandemic, it’s that institutions must be nimble. UNC Chapel Hill, NC State and ...Read more - Goldstein: Lessons learned from UNC’s failed reopening
By Buck Goldstein When I wrote earlier that the fall semester at Chapel Hill would be a test case for broader reopening in society, this isn’t quite what I had in ...Read more - Schools seek state’s help to deal with COVID-19
RALEIGH (Aug. 25, 2020) – Fluid situations demand flexible funds. That’s what state education leaders asked of a state House committee this week as they sought $350 million to deal with ...Read more









