Considering College in NC

Americans have long seen higher education as an engine of personal and social advancement. Recently, however, institutions of higher education have been buffeted by social and economic forces that have undercut the promise of higher education. Troubling questions of affordability, accessibility, readiness and completion all abound.

These topics were the subject of a special one-week series on WUNC Radio, the NPR affiliate in Raleigh-Durham. By blending news reports, commentaries and discussions with education leaders across the state, North Carolina Voices: Considering College plumbed many of the questions confronting North Carolina's model system of postsecondary education.

Audio files of all the series' segments are available for free download here.