A new report says North Carolina needs more highly educated, skilled workers than the state's higher education system can provide.
That was one of the primary findings of a report today to the group setting a future course for the UNC system, reports Jane Stancill.
The UNC Tomorrow Commission heard a flurry of daunting statistics about the state's economic and demographic changes.
By 2014, North Carolina will need 400,000 new workers with bachelor's degrees. But the state's public and private colleges are expected to produce only 254,000 of these workers. Colleges would have to produce more than 15,000 more graduates each year to fill the gap.
"The sheer volume of that left me breathless," said Hanna Gage, a member of the UNC Board of Governors.
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