Source: WRAL, 11/17/19

EDITOR'S NOTE: Leslie Boney is Vice Provost for Outreach and Engagement and Director of the Institute for Emerging Issues at NC State University. This column first appeared on the Higher Ed Works website.

It was a strange group of visitors looking down on the sweet potato processing line at Scott Farms one day last month. As they listened to a plant manager talk about everything from planting to shipping, a nuclear engineer stood next to a graphic designer, a women’s studies expert next to a climatologist, each with a unique lens on what was happening. I was there with 20 recent hires at NC State University as they toured eastern North Carolina, getting to know their new home state.

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