5/2/2008:
The Cognitive Age
4/16/2008:
UNC campuses cooperate for good of state: President Erskine Bowles wants more responsiveness to future economic needs.
4/15/2008:
CHAPEL HILL -- With a May 1 deadline looming, UNC's Tomorrow Commission needs to know what the campus community thinks about its report.
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4/15/2008:
UNC-Chapel Hill has less than one month to determine how to bring North Carolina into the next century. After holding one public forum Monday and another today, UNC-CH will submit its recommendations by May 1 for contributing to a systemwide mandate of serving the state.
3/19/2008:
UNC-Greensboro is creating a new "virtual organization" to promote community and economic development activity, the university has announced.
3/3/2008:
The chancellor's advisory committee met Monday and discussed UNC's impact on the state of North Carolina and the UNC Tomorrow Commission.
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11/05/2007:
IEI Biz Committee Provides Workforce Dev. Recs to HigherEducation Leaders
9/20/2007:
UNC Tomorrow is an 18-month initiative focusing on the ways in which the 16 university campuses across North Carolina can help fulfill the needs of the state over the next 20 years.
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9/17/2007:
Erskine Bowles says the state’s public universities “haven’t been very good at listening.” He intends to change that.
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9/13/2007:
The UNC system must provide more resources and develop quality programs and partnerships so Fayetteville and the region can become successful in a changing economy. That was the message that community leaders gave Wednesday to top officials with the University of North Carolina system.
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9/12/2007:
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington was the site for a rather weighty summit on education Wednesday.
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9/11/2007:
Affordability, accessibility and a seamless educational system were among the topics highlighted at the University of North Carolina Tomorrow forum that made its way to Rocky Mount.
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9/10/2007:
Roughly 200 people joined Winn in giving their thoughts on the UNC system during a forum at East Carolina University's Murphy Center, organizers estimated. Members of the UNC Tomorrow Commission heard from an audience that included retirees, ECU faculty members, area business and political leaders, and 14 Beaufort County schoolchildren.
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9/10/2007:
North Carolina's state universities have a twofold mission: Educate the citizens of the state, and provide public leadership by aiming their resources toward the state's most urgent problems.
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9/09/2007:
The UNC Tomorrow Commission will hold the first of 11 public forums at 9 a.m. at the Murphy Center, located next to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. UNC System President Erskine Bowles and UNC Board of Governors Chairman Jim Phillips are scheduled to be at the open forum, which is part of a larger effort to chart the UNC system's future course.
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9/02/2007:
To prepare itself and the state it serves, the UNC system has launched University of North Carolina Tomorrow. It's a year-long planning effort focusing on these three questions:
• What challenges facing our state do North Carolinians want UNC to respond to?
• How can UNC best respond to these challenges?
• How can UNC sustain this focus over the long term?
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NCCU's pause for reassessment comes as the public university system does the same thing. NCCU was one of seven UNC-system campus designated in 2000 as "focused growth" institutions. They were told to put greater emphasis on recruitment in order to increase enrollment. Seven years later, the university system is pausing as well to reflect on the enrollment boom and to re-think its growth process through an initiative dubbed "UNC Tomorrow."
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8/27/2007:
By 2014, North Carolina will need 400,000 new workers with bachelor’s degrees. But public and private schools are expected to produce only 254,000 of them. To avoid the shortfall, schools will have to turn out 15,000 additional graduates each year until then.
That effort will need to become a priority of all 16 of North Carolina’s public institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees — that’s what the UNC Tomorrow Commission recommended this week.
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8/24/2007:
The University of North Carolina Tomorrow Commission hosted a meeting Thursday of its Scholars Council, an elite group of UNC-system faculty charged with drawing the road map for the commission's future.
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8/23/2007:
The state needs more highly educated, skilled workers than the state's higher education system can provide, according to a report today to the group setting a future course for the UNC system.
The UNC Tomorrow Commission heard a flurry of daunting statistics about the state's economic and demographic changes.
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8/23/2007:
North Carolina's universities are falling behind on providing the number of well-educated, skilled workers the state needs, according to a report today to a commission planning the University of North Carolina system's future.
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5/16/2007:
School officials looking at future
Tomorrow was the topic as higher education officials met yesterday at East Carolina University.
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5/09/2007:
UNC Tomorrow: Leading, Connecting, Transforming
RTRP Radio Show. Guests: Norma Mills, Executive Director, and Tony Caravano, Deputy Director, University of North Carolina Tomorrow.
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5/04/2007:
University of North Carolina System Expands Economic Transformation Efforts, Launches Statewide Visioning Initiative
In March, UNC Board of Governors Chairman Jim Phillips announced an 18-month visioning initiative, called UNC Tomorrow, to identify the needs of the state over the next 20 years and how UNC can help meet them.
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5/01/2007:
UNC officials hit the road for state input
This spring, the UNC system has launched an ambitious plan to do statewide outreach to learn more about how it can help North Carolina residents.
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3/19/2007:
Tomorrow Commission Named
Last month the UNC Board of Governors launched University of North Carolina Tomorrow, an 18-month initiative to determine how the 16-campus University can best meet the needs of the state and its people over the next 20 years.
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3/18/2007:
UNC's 'big' picture
An enrollment explosion forecast for public universities must be planned with creativity -- and with caution
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3/16/2007:
UNC system foresees sharp growth
Over the next year, the university system will undertake a massive planning effort to grapple with the state's future growth and economic needs. How campuses should serve a changing population in a new economy will be one focus.
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