High Point University Presents a Conversation with Dr. Carol Folt and Dr. Nido R. Qubein

Dr. Carol Folt, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill joined Dr. Nido Qubein on stage for two events and a full audience in the Hayworth Fine Arts Center.

Folt, the first woman chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill, knows the challenges today’s educators face, including a national conversation about access to college. Yet she holds tight to a belief she expressed in a recent speech: “This is the best time to be a president at a college or university.”

“We’re sitting here at a beautiful university that has rapidly changed and reimagined itself in 10 years,” Folt told Qubein. “From what I see, every decade has a moment when change is at your fingertips, and you either embrace it or you don’t. I think for higher education, it’s our moment.”

Qubein and Folt both pointed to an entrepreneurial spirit as crucial to an evolving college campus.