Global Education in Guatemala
NC State’s Ethnographic Field School teaches students about the environmental, socio-economic and cultural impacts of tourism for a quarter century. The program, located in Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, gives participants the opportunity to conduct independent research and gain cultural competency in […]
Economic Perspective: Impacts of Rising Interest Rates
With recent talk of rising interest rates, what impact does high or low interest rates have on our economy?
Making Education a Global Priority
Hiller Spires seeks to make education a global priority through her teaching, research and service. As the Friday Institute’s interim director and professor of literacy education in the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, Spires has conducted the New […]IEI First in Future: Earline Middleton, Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina
First in Future: Where Emerging Ideas Take Flight is a weekly program from the Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University that connects you with people…
Poole College Analysis Shows 5,000 Wake County Children Sleep Without a Bed of Their Own
NC State Poole College undergraduate students provide data for Sweeter Dreams project
Economic Perspective: Too Much of a Good Thing?
The low unemployment rate has been well documented, but what other implications does that number have on other aspects of the economy?