Teena Piccione, the new secretary of the North Carolina Department of Information Technology and the state’s chief information officer, serves as High Point University’s Data Expert in Residence. She spoke to a large group of business and engineering students inside HPU’s Bertram L. Podell Extraordinaire Cinema Jan. 9.

Enrollment has rebounded at North Carolina's three state universities in the mountainous western part of the state that was slammed by Hurricane Helene last fall. Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina Asheville and Western Carolina University are all showing enrollment increases compared to last

Months after Hurricane Helene disrupted the academic year for thousands of students and their families, spring enrollment is up at the UNC System’s three mountain universities.

Asheville, North Carolina; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Eagles -1.5; over/under is 166 BOTTOM LINE: UNC Asheville faces Winthrop after Josh Banks scored 22 points in UNC Asheville ...