Higher education News

The program is intended to help the state address its widening teacher shortage by providing a new avenue for lateral-entry teachers to gain licensure. North Carolina employs more than 4,300 lateral-entry teachers, according to a 2015 report by the… read more

The University is helping launch a new alliance that aims to make a college degree possible for more students, regardless of their ability to pay. read more

Three Carolina undergraduates are recipients of a fellowship set up by two alumni for students who have started a Chinese language journey and seek to develop advanced working language skills. read more

The School of Education changes leadership and direction in a period ripe for — and demanding — innovation to counter enrollment and funding declines. read more

The partnership is an expansion of the Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program, C-STEP, a program that has helped hundreds of students enroll at Carolina since its launch in 2006. read more

Kelly Hogan ’01 (PhD) took some troubling statistics on student success and turned them into a new college classroom at Carolina: less talk, more action and deeper learning. read more

She arrives with a reputation for toughness and thick skin that has already has come in handy, as well as more than three decades in education and public policy work at the highest levels. read more

“We are in the business of caring for people,” said Dean Bob Blouin. “This ranking is so dependent on what our students do — not while they’re here, but when they leave us.” read more

Carolina’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy had been ranked second by U.S. News & World Report since 2008. read more