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May Newsletter
Note from the Director
In last month’s Director’s Note, I commented on the unique spirit of civic engagement and collaboration that exists in North Carolina and, in large part, drives our state’s progress. Exemplary of our cross-sector cooperation, last week IEI hosted a Leadership Retreat in Greensboro to help develop our newest program of work.
In previous years, Retreat participants were asked to address concrete issues facing North Carolina: infrastructure, energy, and taxes. This year IEI challenged stakeholders from nonprofits, academia, business and government to give meaning to the slogan “A State of Minds” by focusing on the role creativity could play in our state’s development.
Update On Programs
Growth & Infrastructure
IEI is pleased to be partnering with UNC-TV in its convening of Community Forums across the state this summer. The partnership will merge the efforts of IEI’s program of work on Growth and Infrastructure and PBS’s initiative on America’s aging infrastructure entitled "Blueprint America: Road to the Future."
The Changing Face of North Carolina - Working Caregivers
Last month IEI Faculty Fellow Greg Weeks continued our debate on North Carolina's demographic changes with his discussion on the flaws inherent in the E-Verify program and how they can be fixed. This month, Alison Climo furthers the discussion with her piece on the state's working caregivers.
If you would like to join in on the debate in an upcoming IEI Newsletter, please email us at institute@ncsu.edu.
Did You Know?
As was discussed at the 2009 Emerging Issues Forum, the time is now to ensure that we have in place the built infrastructure to support our growing population and to help us weather these trying economic times. However, the current state of our infrastructure will sustain neither a healthy economy nor the high quality of life our residents deserve.
The American Society of Civil Engineers recently released its 2009 Infrastructure Report Card for North Carolina. Grades were assigned on the basis of condition and capacity, and funding versus need. While some scores have improved since the last report card in 2006, others have declined, ultimately placing us right where we were three years ago – with lots of work to be done.
Faculty Fellows Update
Our Faculty Fellows were busy this month bringing attention to important public policy issues. In the Durham Herald-Sun, Wake Tech’s Rich Cregar took issue with the US Environmental Protection Agency’s recent move to regulate greenhouse gasses. While such emissions need to be reduced, Cregar argued that this is the wrong way to go about it.
