Libby Hodges recently received her Masters in Public Administration from UNC and is currently serving as a CCP intern working with the Town of Yanceyville in Caswell County, NC. Having just wrapped an 11-week internship with the Town of Yanceyville in Caswell County, the author reports on the variou … Read more

Judith Meece is a School of Education faculty member. National Public Radio recently featured a series of reports on the high cost of high school dropout. Only one of the six reports focused on students in rural communities. The lack of focus on the needs of rural schools and youth is not unexpected … Read more

Andrew Guinn is a doctoral student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC and an intern with the Community Campus Partnership. The Town of Chapel Hill is preparing for its upcoming comprehensive planning process, known as Chapel Hill 20/20. As the name of the plan suggests, the docum … Read more

Norma Houston is a School of Government faculty member. North Carolina is no stranger to disasters.  Natural events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, winter storms, mudslides, and floods have assailed every corner of our state.  Man-made events such as chemical plant explosions, natural gas … Read more

Lydian Altman is the director of the Strategic Public Leadership Initiative at the School of Government. The troubled economy has us all searching for efficiencies and often questioning the way we do business.  Many in the public sector are now focusing on how to organize — or re-organize — resour … Read more

Jonathan Morgan is a School of Government faculty member. In the third part of a series on “How to Create a Job”, This American Life teamed up with Planet Money to get some insights into the “nuts and bolts of government job creation” by attending a recent meeting of the International Economic Devel … Read more

Kelley O’Brien is the Director of the North Carolina Civic Education Consortium, a program of the School of Government and one of the five North Carolina Civic Health Index partner organizations. One key aspect of a community’s civic capital is its civil society: the groups and organizations that ma … Read more

Salli Benedict is the HOPE Projects Director at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Stories are powerful: they engage our emotions and hearts and can spur us to action.  HOPE Accounts for Women, the name of our program, refers to women telling their stories—accounts—about the … Read more

Margaret Henderson is the Director of the Public Intersection Project and teaches Nonprofit Management in the Master of Public Administration Program at the UNC School of Government.  We all wish for that single magnificent opportunity to transform our lives or our communities for the better, foreve … Read more

Doug Lauen is an assistant professor in the UNC Department of Public Policy and CCP small grant recipient working in Lenoir County. Gathering administrative data for a longitudinal analysis project is never a quick or easy process. This project is no exception. I have met twice with representatives … Read more