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Feb. 21, 2006Carolina in the News
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people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
What You Need to Know About College Aid
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
...You could lose money with a scholarship. If your child qualifies for need-based grants, the school may reduce its financial award by the amount of money your child receives in scholarships from civic groups and other sources, says Shirley Ort, director of scholarships and student aid for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can salvage your financial-aid package, and reduce your borrowing costs, by requesting that the aid officer reduce the loans instead of the grants.
RadioShack CEO resigns amid resume questions
Dallas Morning News
RadioShack Corp. president and chief executive David Edmondson resigned Monday, following a tumultuous week in which he admitted to "misstatements" on his resume, announced dramatically lower earnings and said the embattled chain may be forced to close up to 700 stores. ...Ms. Babrowski has no undergraduate degree but obtained a master's degree in business administration from an executive MBA program at the University of North Carolina. Students who enter that program are expected to have a bachelor's degree or equivalent. However, the school leaves open the possibility that each year, some people may enter the program with no undergraduate degree, said Penny Oslund, executive director of the Executive MBA program at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Related Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/business/21radio.html
Race and income affect access to physical activity
The Indianapolis Star
Minorities and people with lower incomes generally have much less access than wealthier people to recreational and sports facilities, according to a new national study. As a result, those groups are less physically active and more likely to be overweight, said researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While the lack of access is not the only reason Americans with less money are less active and heavy, they said, it appears to be a key factor.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb06/pediatricspg020106.htmRegional Coverage
Wichita State turns WU's cachet into cash
The Wichita Eagle (Kan.)
Call it a new type of Wichita chemistry: mix black with yellow to make green. It's a formula that's working as fans demand more Wichita State University T-shirts, sweatshirts and other apparel. WSU gets a small cut of every piece of licensed gear sold. ...The top seller, the University of North Carolina, said it earned $3.5 million in licensing fees in 2004. The University of Texas at Austin is likely to take the merchandising title in 2005, said Derek Hughes, spokesperson for Collegiate Licensing.
State & Local Coverage
Elite school could teach Durham's needy
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Children in the North/East Central Durham neighborhoods -- among the poorest in the city -- may soon get access to a top-tier private education. Making it possible is a partnership between a neighborhood church and the founder of a program that has helped many from that area go to college. ...The idea to build a $4.5 million school within the destitute 95-block area east of downtown sprang from the Durham Scholars program, a successful partnership between Union Baptist and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC-Chapel Hill.
More space for 'Scholars' (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
A remarkable experiment in educating children is taking shape in North-East Central Durham. ...Scholars was created by the late Frank Hawkins Kenan and James H. Johnson Jr., the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. It is an unusual partnership between a public university and a faith community. Johnson, a member at Union Baptist Church, runs the program out of the Kenan Institute, the business school's think tank. Funding comes from the W.R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.
Note: No link available.Grant to guard Smith Center
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Duke Blue Devils aren't the only threat to the Tar Heels and their fans, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The Smith Center, which can seat more than 20,000 people, has been considered vulnerable to a terrorist attack since Sept. 11, 2001. ...UNC Director of Public Safety Derek Poarch said the money probably won't buy all the surveillance equipment the university needs for the 300,000-square-foot building, but he will look to future federal grants to complete the project.
Related Link: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/13924504.htmCarolina North panel to meet
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A group charged with forging a consensus vision for the Carolina North research campus will have its first meeting March 2 at the Friday Center, off N.C. 54. The committee, proposed by UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser in December, has gotten off to a creaky start. Chapel Hill town leaders weren't sure they would participate, then with some reservations, agreed to send representatives.
Students object to cartoon in Daily Tar Heel
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
About 20 UNC students staged a sit-in at the university's student newspaper office Monday night, demanding that editors print an apology for publishing a cartoon that depicted the prophet Muhammad. ... "We obviously apologize to anyone personally offended by the crux of the cartoon," said Tuck, a UNC senior.
UNC's student paper is the target of a sit-in
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Daily Tar Heel usually covers campus sit-ins. On Monday, the student newspaper was the target of one. More than a dozen students marched into The Daily Tar Heel offices at UNC-Chapel Hill and plopped down on the floor to protest the newspaper's publication of an editorial cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad. They said they wouldn't leave until the newspaper apologized.
Related Link: http://www.nbc17.com/news/7286302/detail.htmlGreen high-rise deemed golden
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Chapel Hill residents often come to Town Hall to bury development proposals, not to praise them. The reverse was true Monday as speakers at a public hearing heaped hurrahs on Greenbridge, a condominium and retail high-rise slated for downtown. ...David Brower, a city and regional planning professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, said he's been waiting 36 years for a project like this. "And it's finally coming," he said with glee. "If they can do two-thirds of what they're talking about, it's going to be really exciting, even monumental."
Issues & Trends
Teaching deficit (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Of the many roles North Carolinians expect their universities to play, service to the people ranks high in priority. Preparing students to teach future generations of Tar Heel children in public schools fits well within that mission. Yet there is a dilemma: The University of North Carolina system is producing only about a third of the public school teachers that are needed to keep the state's classrooms properly staffed. It's encouraging that Erskine Bowles, the system's new president, is wasting no time in leading the campuses to improve.
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