Tyler Mulligan is a School of Government faculty member. The city manager of Tooltime, North Carolina, picks up the phone and calls Tim Taylor, the city’s minimum housing public officer and lead housing inspector. “Tim, I understand why you suspended all periodic inspections in Tooltime that did not … Read more

Kendra Cotton is the project director for the Community-Campus Partnership. UNC’s Community-Campus Partnership (CCP), the Danville Regional Foundation (DRF) and the Town of Yanceyville have a shared interest in developing leadership in Caswell County. Through several recent projects, CCP has identif … Read more

Jonathan Morgan is a School of Government faculty member. Manufacturing companies in the U.S.  have struggled to find enough skilled production workers for several years.  During periods of robust economic growth, the shortage of qualified workers is particularly acute.  In the current economy with … Read more

Andrew Guinn is a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC and works in Chapel Hill for the Community-Campus Partnership. The Chapel Hill 2020 Comprehensive Planning Process is now well under way.  One of the most important – and most ambitious – goals of this process is to … Read more

John Cooper is a program director at MDC, a 44-year-old nonprofit based in Durham, N.C., that develops initiatives to improve educational and economic opportunity, and a research fellow at UNC-CH’s  Institute for the Environment. North Carolina has a long history of natural disasters, but 2011 may g … Read more

Anne Bacon is Senior Director for Workforce Development at the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center. “Green, do you want a job?”  Kehoni Green had just crossed the stage at Nash Community College’s graduation when he was approached by the chief of the Nashville Fire Department.  The training and c … Read more

Andrew Guinn is a PhD student in the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning and a CCP intern working in Chapel Hill. Over the course of the last summer, the Community Campus Partnership extended its activities into Orange County and began working with the Town of Chapel Hill in support of its … 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. Several blog posts over the past year have addressed results of the North Carolina Civic Health Index. T … Read more

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