Jun 25, 2021
The Summer of Soar? Summertime and the living is… frenzied. At least if you work in local government. Cities and counties and school systems are still trying to find ways…
May 27, 2021
Anchors in a Storm Back in 2015, the Institute for Emerging Issues made a tricky commitment. We said we wanted to work on a project with The Duke Endowment to…
Apr 29, 2021
The Role of NC’s HBCUs in Rebuilding Post-Pandemic Now that we appear to be emerging from the worst of the pandemic, the impact on jobs in North Carolina is becoming…
Mar 25, 2021
The Back End of the One-and-One Funding from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) is barreling toward North Carolina and I haven’t yet heard anyone saying no. Among other things, the…
Feb 26, 2021
What Comes Next? Without thinking about it last week, I found myself whistling a tune after we finished our Emerging Issues Forum. I know the whistling was partly relief —…
Jan 29, 2021
What Is This Glorious Mysterious Thing? One of the oldest stories in folklore is the tale of the blind men and the elephant. Each of them feels a different part…
Dec 16, 2020
What’s Normal? This is the season when we traditionally find the identity of the “Time Person of the Year,” the People Magazine “People of the Year,” the Sports Illustrated “Sportsperson…
Nov 24, 2020
Finding the Hope in this Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Holiday Season In the middle of the outrage about the election and resurging pandemic, another outrage bubbled quietly. Apple TV bought…
Oct 30, 2020
Whack-A-Mole and Mental Health Every time we think we are seeing the beginning of the end of COVID-19, there’s a new wrinkle that reminds us we may not even be…
Sep 29, 2020
What Needs Changing When Everything’s Changing At the start of our September 24 webinar on “Higher Education and the Future of Work,” Hope Williams, President of North Carolina’s Independent Colleges…
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