The HiceSchool blog is produced and managed by Joe Hice, that would be me, chief communications officer at NC State University.

While faculty, staff and students from throughout the university are invited to contribute to www.hiceschool.com, the blog site will still be supervised by me.

I arrived at NC State on September 21, 2009 after spending the past four years with the University of Florida in Gainesville where I was responsible for university communications and marketing.  My real claim to fame is the UF branding campaign, better known as The Gator Nation.

I am an alum of UF, having received my BA and MA degrees in Journalism and Communications from the university more than a few years ago.  I also receive an MBA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  Not so many years ago, but definitely not yesterday.

The main objective of  HiceSchool is to provide comments on life at NC State, in Raleigh and in North Carolina, as well as to provide information about the activities of the university and to correct inaccurate, incomplete or just plain dumb statements about NC State – or higher education in general –  that appear…wherever. Also, since there are about 200 million blog sites on the web, the name is a transparent attempt to be memorable.

I also welcome your fawning comments and suggestions about HiceSchool and hope you’ll share your thoughts, or at least the funny, original, non-slanderous-ones, on the blog itself as well as on the individual posts on the site.

While I will attempt to update the blog on a regular basis, no promises beyond the first 100 days.  I hope you find the commentary at HiceSchool somewhat interesting and of redeeming social value. If not…oh well.

Next time you’re on campus look for me, I’ll be the guy wearing a red tie!