CHARLOTTE (Oct. 4, 2017) – Sure, higher education benefits the student who earns a diploma.

But it also helps the rest of us.

“It’s also a public good,” Margaret Spellings, President of the University of North Carolina System, declares in the accompanying short video.

“When I think about North Carolina and the high levels of investment that the citizens of North Carolina have generously contributed to this institution over the many years and decades, I think they intrinsically know that – that it’s worth investing for themselves as taxpayers, because we’re going to have a better quality of life, a better-educated populace, more jobs, more research, more scholarship, just a better place to be all the way around,” she says.

“And that’s where the public good of higher education comes in.”