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. Four lucky Durham Technical Community College students will soon pioneer a bold new apprenticeship program with Durham-based KBI Biopharma designed to groom more workers for pharmaceutical manufacturing. The apprenticeship program announced today opens a Triangle-based jobs development partnership that is expected to serve as a model for the North Carolina Community College System’s statewide ApprenticeshipNC Program. The project also targets military veterans who might not recognize they have skills and experience that can transfer well into job openings in the life sciences – especial...

/ Flickr Enrollment at Central Piedmont Community College dropped by 20% from fall 2019 to fall 2020, according to data from the North Carolina Community College System. The school's enrollment dropped from 30,835 students down to 24,609. Fewer students have been enrolling in North Carolina's community colleges over the last year, and officials say the pandemic is to blame. According to figures published online by the North Carolina Community College System, enrollment was down 17% in the fall 2020 semester, compared with the previous year. System President Thomas Stith said nearly every comm...

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Five political questions for 2021

  Figuratively speaking, of course. I stopped relying on the polling aggregator I built earlier the decade. I took fewer glances at the aggregators built by other pundits and political websites. Instead, I looked at a broader set of metrics — survey data about public attitudes instead of partisan preferences, for example, and trends in voter registration and behavior. I also started talking to a more varied collection of sources, via phone calls and email. I cast a wider net. I took more seriously John Stuart Mill’s warning that while “everyone well knows himself to be fallible, few th...