Higher Education

Apr 29, 2020

Director’s Log | April 2020

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” –Winston Churchill, 1942 Dear Friends: None… 

Apr 20, 2020

IEI Launches New Podcast and Video Series on “Connecting in Crisis”

When the Institute for Emerging Issues was faced with the most important emerging issue of our time, they did what they do best: gathered people together.  But convening looks very… 

Mar 31, 2020

First in Future: The Online Learning Dilemma

Summary: The Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues, Leslie Boney, will be hosting a series of virtual conversations discussing the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) and some of the ways… 

Mar 10, 2020

First in Future: “the Poetry Fox” Chris Vitiello part 2

Summary: Poets can sometimes tell us something we haven’t thought of before, force us to confront a truth we’d rather avoid or help us see something in a way we… 

Mar 3, 2020

First in Future: “the Poetry Fox” Chris Vitiello part 1

Summary: Traditionally when you think of poets, they sit in a quiet room and produce distilled wisdom on paper to an internal beat. Those poets have more visible cousins these… 

Feb 25, 2020

First in Future: State Board of Education Chair Eric Davis

Summary: This year, the Raleigh-based nonprofit Public School Forum has identified its top education issues to address, to take “immediate and intentional actions to provide each child a sound basic education.” This is a response to a lingering… 

Jan 16, 2020

First in Future: NC State Professor Jason Miller (Episode 2 on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

Summary: In continued honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Institute for Emerging Issues presents the second part of our fascinating conversation with Dr. Jason Miller of NC State’s Department of English.… 

Jan 7, 2020

First in Future: IBM Global Lead for Serious Games Phaedra Boinodiris

Summary: Artificial intelligence will soon be making decisions about who gets jobs, whether you get a loan, and what sort of diagnosis you get for a condition. That is why… 

Dec 24, 2019

First in Future: co-founder of District C Dan Gonzalez

Summary: In 2016, the Institute for Emerging Issues looked at the future economy and tried to figure out the kinds and numbers of jobs that were likely to go away… 

Oct 8, 2019

First in Future: Dean of Metropolitan College at Johnson C. Smith University Laura Colson McLean

Summary: The best estimate of the My Future NC Commission for the number of people in North Carolina who started college but then dropped out is 905,000. In many ways,…