During the late Spring - President Bowles, Board of Governors Chairman Jim Phillips and GA staff traveled to each University campus (including our newest campus North Carolina School of Science and Math). Each campus was given the opportunity to share their impact on their region/the state, sending the team away pleasantly surprised as to the level of impact made on the state. If we are surprised to hear about some of the projects and initiatives on our campuses, how can we expect citizens across the state to know what the campuses are doing for them? How can our campuses better tell their stories in your communities? Are you aware of services provided by the campus(es) closest to your community?
Please visit www.nctomorrow.org to read the campus visit report on the campus near you. Each report includes an institutional profile, list of needs being addressed by the campus, barriers and a list of potential opportunities.
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My first time on here, and I’m speaking my mind so please take it at face value.
I think it’s important to understand why we don’t necessarily know of everything our schools are doing. I feel that institutions in smaller communities or cities have an easier time leaving a visible impact than those where the ratio of student to non-student resident is less. But these are also local stories that may never reach past the communities they affect.
For example, I feel ECU, UNCCH and ASU have an easier task because these towns are fundamentally college towns. But if you look at NCCU and NCSU for example, the students and the administration must work to compete with other events and stories in the community.
That said, I believe that working with local officials to champion and celebrate innovative partnerships will help dramatically. I think our city and county officials have not yet grasped what untapped potential lies on their doorsteps. We must do more to allow our government officials to feel open about asking for our involvement, and to show that we share a space so we must work together to enrich that space. If we do this we may spark an interest in these local communities to boast to a larger audience about the assets—our schools—that they hold in their areas.
And on a state level I believe we need more devoted persons to showcase our assets to state officials in Raleigh who provide grants and are in positions to ask for involvement from our schools. We do so much, but if we allow others to assume ownership of our involvement we will create greater chatter among statewide networks where we miss it now.
Too few people know that the NC Arboretum in Bent Creek, near Asheville, is a campus of the university system. Probably, even fewer people are aware of the amazing contribution this campus is making. Like a pebble dropped in a pond, the money invested in the Arboretum has caused ripples advancing our knowledge of natural products as they serve mankind and as a potential new economic engine for our region. Another economic ripple has been their participation in partnerships to capitalize on Asheville being the center of weather data collection -with an eye toward promoting knowledge useful to our global warming defenses. The Arboretum staff is continually developing new ways to extend the tourism and educational benefits of their facilities to visitors on site and online. It is a think and do tank for applied science, environmental stewardship, and workforce/job development. They have used creative fund development to stretch a meager budgtet, and deserve our fullest, increased financial support. Every dollar invested there pays off fully.
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