Campus Notes, the N&O's higher education blog, is now on Twitter.

Check us out: twitter.com/campus_notes.

Just a note to let you know that the News & Observer's higher education blog - Campus Notes - now has a twitter presence.

We want to use it to get the word out about our higher education reporting.

The address is twitter.com/campus_notes.

Friends - Campus Notes now has a presence on Twitter and would love for you to join as a follower.

I hope to use Twitter as one more way to let people know about news reported in the News & Observer and here on the Campus Notes blog.

So sign up and let me know what you think: twitter.com/campus_notes. 

Hello and welcome to Campus Notes, the News & Observer's new blog focused specifically on higher education around the Triangle and beyond in North Carolina.

I write about higher education issues for the News & Observer and want this blog to be a repository for all sorts of information. You'll see some stuff here that you'll also see in the newspaper. But I and other News & Observer reporters will focus on other news items as well — the tidbits that don't make the paper, the breaking news we cannot wait until morning to tell you about, the updates on past stories we think you'll be interested in. We will also link to higher ed-related stories across the nation that we find interesting.

We want this blog to be a bookmark - a place you visit each day as you're scanning the web. We keep an eye on plenty of colleges and universities and want to hear from you. What interests you? What did we do well in covering? What did we miss?

On the left edge of this blog, you'll find plenty of links to area colleges and universities as well as other interesting sites. I'll just mention a couple: If you scroll down the page a bit to the "other useful links" section, you'll find a link titled "the cost of public higher education in North Carolina." If you're a high school senior or the parent of one, you might find this useful.

And if you want a fun time-waster, look at the next link down. That's our searchable salary database. The salaries of all UNC system employees are public records. So go ahead; check out what your boss makes. 

Thanks for visiting. Come again.