Sep 25, 2020
As a parent of a new Junior in High School, things are not business as usual. I am currently working from home and he is learning from home. I have…
Sep 15, 2020
Governor Cooper shared that $40 million in state funding will go to North Carolina students who aren’t able to connect to consistent or affordable virtual learning through the NC Connect…
Sep 14, 2020
RALEIGH—The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University is proud to announce its second round of grant recipients for Building a New Digital Economy in NC (BAND-NC). An…
Sep 3, 2020
Submitted by Trishell Moore, AmeriCorps VISTA with the Institute for Emerging Issues As a student working towards my Master Degree in Agriculture Education, and as an AmeriCorp VISTA, access…
Aug 28, 2020
A Few Sips from an Oasis of Optimism If we are to believe the predictions, we are heading toward a 10 week napalming of negative campaign ads: from radio and…
Aug 25, 2020
In 2019, 51 million tourists spent nearly $27B in the state. We checked in with the executive director of Visit NC, Wit Tuttell on tourism revenues in NC are down $7B so far this year with roughly 25% unemployment and hotel occupancy rates of about 40%.
Aug 18, 2020
RALEIGH—The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University is excited to announce its first round of grant recipients for Building a New Digital Economy in NC (BAND-NC). Eleven…
Aug 14, 2020
Contributed by Caitlin Lancaster, NCSU student worker COVID-19 has dramatically altered people’s lives and forced many people, especially students, to turn to digital methods to complete work or school.…
Jul 30, 2020
Lifting Up the Laboratories of Democracy The past twenty years have given all of us a steady set of reminders of what it means to live interconnected and interdependent in…
Jul 29, 2020
The IEI team convened a Mid-Summer Zoom gathering of faith leaders (clergy and laity) and partners to discuss what’s going on within the network. Of course it’s hard to find…
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