As chair of the Senate Budget Committee, I know an educated workforce is critical for our long-term economic and fiscal ...
We've got to focus on how we take the infrastructure we have, grow it, make it better.
Let me just say that North Carolina represents the largest pool of HBCUs in the country with 11.
I think the first role of an institution is to ensure all of its degrees and certificates are quality degrees.
By every score, as it relates to retention, GPA, everything at Fayetteville State, the programs that he oversees, the pr...
If their expectations are too low, you're trying to expand that.
This is important to North Carolina, and it's important to the country.
Congratulations. We've got something to learn, and I urge my colleagues to listen to what they've done at Fayetteville S...
We can talk the talk, but we don't always walk the walk.
It is absolutely essential that the teaching force look more like the students who they are going to serve.
I don't think that we can forget students who are underprepared by the K through 12 system.
That's why I am proud to announce that I'm going to be introducing the HBCU Innovation Fund as a mechanism to help HBCUs...
a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and we must be investing in it.
remedial education is really a burial ground for disadvantaged students, for under-represented students.
I am one of the biggest proponents of STEM education in the Senate, because it is so important for the jobs today.
I couldn't agree more. And with that, I really want to thank all of our witnesses today for being here...
I mandated that a course be taught, but we need to do more.
And I think you also mentioned the need for Pell grants in the summertime, too.
