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August 20, 2004
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:
U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Carolina ranked as the nation's fifth best public university and a leader in making education financially accessible to students in the latest U.S. News & World Report
rankings. UNC also posted a 21-point gain in the magazine's faculty resources category ranking, Carolina's best showing in that category in five years. The magazine
considered snapshots of class size, average faculty compensation in 2002-03 and 2003-04, proportion of faculty who are full time and with the highest degree in their
field, and student-faculty ratio.
Carolina has developed a special Web site more fully exploring how these U.S. News results help signal progress with some of Carolina's own strategic measures of
excellence, including accessibility, faculty resources and class size. The link is the featured "This Week at Carolina" item at www.unc.edu. You may also find it at
http://www.unc.edu/depts/design/academic_excellence/. The page includes a chart tracking select data on accessibility, faculty resources and class size measures that
compare Carolina with its top public campus peers over time.
Academic Excellence web site: http://www.unc.edu/depts/design/academic_excellence
Rankings news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug04/usnews082004.html
UNC, Duke still ranked among best by magazine
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC and Duke continue to rank among the nation's elite universities, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings.... (Chancellor James) Moeser said
he was pleased with measurements within the U.S. News rankings showing that Carolina bettered itself significantly in the areas of faculty resources and class size.
According to the rankings, UNC's faculty resources rose 21 slots in the national rankings from 2003 to 2004, from the 71st spot to 50th. And its class-size situation
improved too. In 2003, 40 percent of UNC classes had fewer than 20 students; this year, 51 percent of classes had that distinction. "Given the rough time we've had,
this is a remarkable achievement," Moeser said. "Our own internal policies of directing resources to our highest priorities is paying off."
U.S. News ranks, and rankles, schools
The News & Observer
The names of North Carolina's best-known colleges and universities -- and some that aren't so well-known -- were sprinkled throughout a fistful of rankings released
Thursday by U.S. News & World Report....Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill claimed the fifth and 29th spots respectively in the magazine's annual ranking of general
excellence.
Related links:
Associated Press
The Charlotte Observer
The Winston-Salem Journal
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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National Coverage
Kerry focuses on Southern Strategy
National Public Radio, "Morning Edition"
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry campaigns in North Carolina. Though President Bush dominated the South in the 2000 election, Kerry is not
conceding it this year. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.
Note: Ferrel Guillory, lecturer and director of the program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life, is quoted in the audio file.
Christian frat rejected by UNC
Chicago Tribune
A Christian student group that refused to sign a nondiscrimination policy has been denied official recognition by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State & Local Note
WUNC-FM aired a feature story during this morning's local breaks of NPR's "Morning Edition," detailing the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and
History Stone Center slated to open on campus Saturday.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul04/stonecenter072804.html
State & Local Coverage
UNC names new dean
Triangle Business Journal
José-Marie Griffiths has been named dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug04/silsdean081904.html
WUNC gets new program director
The News & Observer
WUNC 91.5 FM has hired a new program director, Boston public radio veteran George Boosey, who helped create highly regarded syndicated programs including
"The Connection," which airs weekday mornings on WUNC, and "On Point," an evening news and talk show carried by the station during the Democratic National
Convention.
A satisfying tale of two judges (Point of View)
The News & Observer
After a decade of litigation in the Leandro-Hoke County cases, North Carolina has developed -- and is prepared to enforce -- one of the most demanding sets of
constitutional norms in the country....Gene R. Nichol is dean and the Burton Craige professor of law at the UNC School of Law.
Interim director to lead new downtown development group
The Chapel Hill Herald
The new downtown board has chosen Nick Didow, a professor in UNC's business school and longtime city school board member, as its interim executive director.
UNC students start moving in today
The Chapel Hill Herald
They're baaaaaack....Say goodbye, Chapel Hillians, to the halcyon days of summer --when you could get across town without braking a thousand times for streams
of UNC students crossing the road.
Students make the area special (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Hear that growing roar, that thunderous pounding of hooves as the stampede gets closer and closer? It's the students, of course. They're almost here. Yes, it's that
time of year again.
'Newvies' all the same? Yes -- and no
The Charlotte Observer
John Cohen's black, supercharged Cadillac Escalade SUV packs 550 horsepower and rides on big silver wheels. Cohen, an investment banker, moved to Charlotte
from Toledo eight years ago....New voters are more likely to be white, Republican, college-educated and affluent than N.C. voters as a whole, says SouthNow, a
UNC Chapel Hill program focusing on Southern politics, media and public life.
Pace fails to follow through on flight plans
The Winston-Salem Journal
When Pace Airlines announced in January last year that it was considering offering scheduled passenger service at Smith Reynolds Airport, the news was greeted with
optimism....Others agreed. Growing competition from such low-cost airlines as the new Independence Air can make it tough for other airlines to enter a market, said
John Kasarda, an airline expert at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Football to start before school
The News & Observer
By the time the Carolina Panthers open their National Football League season Sept. 13, many high school football players in North Carolina will have played four
games....There were no heat stroke deaths among football players in the United States in 2003, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injuries,
based at the University of North Carolina.
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