October 22, 2003

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:

International Coverage

Making the world your oyster
Financial Times (London)
Globalisation has become the watchword for business schools in the 21st century....The pull of globalisation has seen such heavyweights as London Business School and Columbia form the EMBA Global, while five schools on four continents, including RSM and Kenan Flagler, joined forces to offer OneMBA.
(Available only by subscription.)

Applying learning to the real world
Financial Times (London)
Before she had even completed her first few months of an executive MBA, Lisa Astbury, co-founder of Change Work, an online recruitment company, found she was taking what she had learned back into the business....In addition, the company does not lose its employees for long periods of time. "Two years [on a full-time MBA] is a long time to have somebody out of your employ," says Hugh O'Neill, chair and associate professor of management at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.
(Available only by subscription.)

National Coverage

State Schools Raise Tuition Additional 14%
The Wall Street Journal
...The College Board, the nonprofit association that sponsors the SAT admissions test, reported Tuesday that tuition and fees at public four-year schools now averages $4,694 a year. That is up 14%, or $579, from a year ago. Private four-year colleges reported an average 6% increase, to $19,710 a year, up from $18,596.
(In the print edition, a graph listing UNC's tuition rates is included.)

Related national links below; N.C. stories appear in State and Local section:
Public College Tuition Rose 14% in '03, Survey Finds, The New York Times

College Tuition Rises to New Heights, but Student Aid Grows ..., The Chronicle of Higher Education

Report: College costs take big jump, but so does aid, USA Today

Miami Seaquarium has no record of safety inspections
The Miami Herald
Until a recent complaint from a Miami Seaquarium visitor prompted Miami-Dade fire inspectors to cite the park's operators for 36 safety violations, the popular but aging attraction had gone years without required annual inspections, the county fire department says....The report by safety consultant and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill adjunct professor Jon Wallace comes on the heels of recent inspections by the fire and building departments that found dozens of safety violations at Seaquarium -- deficiencies that park operators are now working to fix.

State and Local Coverage

College costs continue to soar
Greensboro News & Record
The cost of attending the nation's public universities rose 14.1 percent last year, the biggest one-year jump in tuition and fees since the 1960s....UNC-Chapel Hill made national headlines this month when it became the nation's first public university to ensure that qualified low-income students could graduate without going into debt.

Tuition leaps nationwide, less in N.C.
The News & Observer
Tuition and fees at public universities jumped an average of 14 percent nationwide this year, as states cut their budgets to deal with the economic downturn.

Tuition fees in U.S. up 14.1%
The Herald Sun
In proposing a one-year freeze on tuition, public university officials tried late last year to give students and their families a break from the rising cost of higher education...."It's an extreme compromise for students to make, but we want our faculty to be compensated and we want good TAs [teaching assistants]," Matt Tepper, UNC's student body president, said of the $300 increase plan. "This year, we're probably going to see some pretty significant [overall] increases."

Group looks for next big thing
The News & Observer
The group charged with marketing the 13-county region surrounding Research Triangle Park to prospective employers has identified eight technologies it believes will bring new and well -paying jobs to the area over the next quarter-century....A state tax credit available for investors who buy into startup companies, for example, should be made permanent, said Jeff Reid, executive director for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a participant in the study.

FCC commissioners to attend Charlotte hearing
The Charlotte Observer
Four of the Federal Communications Commission's five commissioners will attend a public hearing Wednesday in Charlotte on the state of localism in broadcasting....Among those confirmed to speak on two panels at the hearing are Debbie Kwei, general manager of Charlotte's WCHH-FM ("Hot" 92.7); songwriter Tift Merritt of Chapel Hill and Joan Siefert Rose, general manager of WUNC-FM, Chapel Hill.

Broadcasting's local voice (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Charlotte Observer
The Federal Communications Commission comes to Charlotte today to begin a series of public hearings throughout the country on how broadcasters are serving their local communities....Diverse local music is sprouting on radio in the Carolinas. A loose network of public and community stations showcase alternative and emerging artists. WUNC-FM, WPCM-FM, WQDR-FM, WKXU-FM, WKIX-FM and WNCW-FM feature local country and bluegrass artists.

No other like him
The News & Observer (Editorial)
What a wonderful nickname to carry through an athletic career. "Choo Choo" defined the great Charlie Justice as a football player, but in the life that followed football, Justice was more a man of humility and good grace than of flamboyance.

Teaching patience (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
Athletics are an important part of UNC's tradition, but the last few years have proven Carolina fans to be fickle lovers.

The News & Observer (Editorial cartoon)

Eating Disorders Gaining Notice
The Charlotte Observer
Eating disorders are in the news.....Cynthia Bulik, president of the Academy for Eating Disorders and director of the University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program in Chapel Hill, N.C., is among those who believe genetics plays a role.

School could become issue in satellite campus
The Chapel Hill News
UNC officials have yet to specify what type of residential development will be pursued on the 1,000-acre Horace Williams property.

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