October 27, 2008 – 3:05 pm
Lots of people have been talking recently about where I’m from. Here are the facts: I was born and went to grade school and high school in Fayetteville. My father was born and raised in Rocky Mount (he and my mother moved to Fayetteville in 1960). But the place that I’ve lived the longest is [...]
October 17, 2008 – 12:13 pm
The installation weekend was exciting. It was a great win on Saturday (even if I had to run out on the field at the end of the game twice) and perfect weather on Sunday. One of the best parts of the weekend was having my two mentors from Yale and Caltech there. They both stayed [...]
October 9, 2008 – 9:34 am
Yesterday, we had another Student Open House. I’ve enjoyed both of them a lot. Todd Dalrymple definitely has people working to craft an agenda and stick to it. Makes sense for someone who moonlights as a little league umpire to be good at keeping people to the rules. One of the topics was enrollment growth. [...]
October 7, 2008 – 8:23 am
The first stop in Fayetteville was at Fayetteville State University. James Anderson is one of the three first-year chancellors (along with me and Linda Brady of UNC-Greensboro), so we had lots to talk about. Sounds like he is settling in well at FSU and really understands the university. He seems to have figured out as [...]
October 5, 2008 – 7:25 pm
In the morning, we went to Elizabeth City State University to visit Chancellor Willie Gilchrist. ECSU is in a beautiful setting on the sound. Chancellor Gilchrist took me on a tour of the campus, and he showed me all the things they’re doing for their students. Dr. Gilchrist has a great handle on the challenges [...]
October 3, 2008 – 9:02 am
We started out this morning at UNC-Wilmington. Chancellor DePaolo took me on a tour of her campus. It was a great day to be in coastal North Carolina, and I could really see how the higher education bonds transformed UNC-W. Chancellor DePaolo and her team have done a great job making sure that the new [...]
October 2, 2008 – 6:42 am
We spent the morning of the third day in Charlotte. The first stop was West Charlotte High School, one of the schools served by our Carolina Advising Corps. Pharen Bowman is our Advising Corps member who helps the students at West Charlotte. Lots of West Charlotte alums who also went to Carolina turned out for the [...]
October 1, 2008 – 8:01 am
Day two started with a visit to Chancellor Anne Ponder at UNC-Asheville. UNC-A is an unusual place: a small liberal arts school that graduates 700 students per year. Chancellor Ponder got into university leadership early as well – she started her first presidency when she was my age. So we had a lot to talk [...]