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

National Coverage

Health Industry Cool To Complete Repeal Of New Law
"Morning Edition" National Public Radio

…So are Republicans being abandoned by their usual allies in the business community? Not exactly, says Jonathan Oberlander, who teaches health policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "Usually we think of the health industry as being in alliance with Republicans and opposing more government intervention in the health care system," Oberlander says. But you have to ask why did the industry support the health reform law in the first place?"

Chapel Hill Professor Quits Over Relationship With Student
Inside Higher Ed

Monty Cook, a faculty member hired by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to lead a new digital media program, has resigned after being confronted with racy text messages about his relationship with a female student, The News and Observer reported.

Regional Coverage

Football safety takes a hit from new data
The St. Petersburg Times (Florida)

…Talk of head trauma in America's most popular sport has spiked this fall. That's happened in large part because of a spate of exceptionally violent tackles in the National Football League and also the plight of a young man from New Jersey's Rutgers University who last month went from defensive lineman to quadriplegic. …According to a UNC survey of thousands of former NFL players, players who suffer three concussions in their lifetimes, like Plant City's coach, have more than three times the rate of depression and five times the rate of cognitive impairment.

State and Local Coverage

UNC-CH raising tuition 6.5%
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

There was no uprising Thursday when UNC-Chapel Hill trustees raised tuition. No gaggle of sign-toting protesters complaining about a more costly education. No audible groans or rolling of eyes. Just Student Body President Hogan Medlin's lone "no" vote on a plan that will raise tuition 6.5 percent next year. Medlin was pushing an alternate plan to raise tuition $40 less per year than the $313 ultimately approved. But he didn't quibble too much with the board's decision. "I think students on this campus understand the budget situation," Medlin said.
Related Link:
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/10373525/article-UNC-board-seeks
-6-5–tuition-increase?instance=main_article

UNC Chancellor Thorp backs Davis, Baddour
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

University of North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp offered his most resounding vote of support yet for football coach Butch Davis and athletic director Dick Baddour on Thursday, telling the school's board of trustees the pair will retain their positions for next year. Thorp praised Davis and Baddour for their handling of the NCAA investigation into the university's football program, later telling reporters that the university had no plans to impose self-sanctions as it awaits word from college athletics' governing body.
Related Links:
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story_sports/10372980/article-Davis-tells-
BOT-he-s–saddened–by-scandal?instance=main_article

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/unc/story/8647366/
http://wunc.org/programs/news/archive/SDD111910.mp3/view
Tarheelblue.com coverage:
http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=unc&media=212429

Heels edge Wolfpack in recruiting
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

N.C. State is one game ahead of North Carolina in the win column, but the two football programs aren't even close in the 2011 recruiting rankings. …After NCAA investigators arrived at UNC in July, Rivals .com analyst Mike Farrell expected the Tar Heels to have some difficulty landing recruits and maintaining the loyalty of players who already had committed to the program. So far, however, that hasn't happened.

Chris Roush is No. 1 (Blog)
The News & Record (Greensboro)

Congratulations to Chris Roush, the Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Scholar in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill, who has been named the N.C. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. (Boy, these educators have long titles.)
Related Links:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2010/11/18/roush-named-NC-Professor-of-year.html
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes/unc-prof-named-nc-prof-of-the-year
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4116/67/

N.Y. firm buys Clayton urgent care group
The Triangle Business Journal

…Any growth in the business would be well timed, as the national health care reform law puts an emphasis on the use of urgent care centers to help reduce overcrowding in emergency departments and reduce the cost of care. “An urgent care is a reasonable alternative (to emergency departments) for treatment,” says Sharon Greene, a professor of health policy within UNC Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Stroke care hard to find in Eastern N.C.
The Triangle Business Journal

…“It’s pretty bad in North Carolina,” says Dr. Ana Felix, a neurologist at UNC Hospitals, adding that across the Southeast, incidents and death from stroke is higher than in the rest of the nation. While those numbers have been tracked, no study has fully determined why the Southeast is the nation’s “Stroke Belt”.

A costly surprise for Cornerstone Therapeutics
The Triangle Business Journal

…The drug is not cheap; two ounces of the liquid medicine costs $58, says Stefanie Ferreri, a professor of pharmacy at UNC’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Ferreri says Tussionex is preferred by many doctors because it works so well. Even though the cough and cold market is crowded with many products, she says few offer the combination of a cough product with an antihistamine for congestion.

Duke, UNC, Rex hospital bottom lines robust, but free care bulge feared
The Triangle Business Journal

…Chris Ellington, UNC Hospitals CFO, says that over the past six months the hospital has seen greater demand for free care. Ellington expects the charity care numbers to be worse in fiscal 2011, though he is not sure how much demand will grow through the last nine months of the fiscal year.

Playmakers offers tall-tale story
The Chapel Hill Herald

PlayMakers Repertory Company will celebrate the holidays with "Shipwrecked! An Entertainment" by Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies. The real-life yet tall-tale storytelling extravaganza will be on stage Dec. 1-19 at UNC. The show's extended title, "Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself)," sets the stage.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4090/66/

Digital news head resigns
The Chapel Hill Herald

Monty Cook, the former Baltimore Sun editor who came to UNC in April to lead an experimental digital news and audience research initiative, has resigned over an inappropriate relationship with a "student-employee" who was under his supervision.
Related Links:
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2010/nov/19/instructor-quits-over-liaison-ar-550144/
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7797007
http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2010/nov/18/unc-professor-resigns-after-
incident-student-ar-548531/

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/8646694/

Issues and Trends

A Primer on Capitalist Practice for a Modern Research University (Book Review)
Academe Magazine

Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein have crafted a utopian imaginary of an American research university for the future, and they want it yesterday. In their new book, Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty-First Century, Thorp and Goldstein put forth their vision of the research institution as a dynamic and flexible bastion of interdisciplinary innovation.

NCSU tuition hike approved
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

The N.C. State University Board of Trustees this morning approved a $300 per year tuition hike for undergraduates and even larger increases for other students. If approved by the UNC Board of Governors and the state legislature, the increase would add about 6.2 percent to the current in-state undergraduate tuition of $4,853 beginning next fall. Tuition would rise $600 for graduate students and out-of-state undergraduates, and even more for students in a handful of “premium” graduate programs such as the MBA program.

Budget to put brakes on university construction
The Business Journal of the Greater Triad

Big state-funded construction projects have been one of the reliable economic engines through the long-running downturn. But a decision by the University of North Carolina system not to seek new planning or capital construction money next year will put the brakes on that source of business for some contractors.

Frugal concept for UNC (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)

The headlines were about as incongruent as they come. The front page of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, blared, “Some UNC administrators want to raise faculty salaries from increased tuition revenue.” A few days later, a headline from The News & Observer of Raleigh read: “Close an entire campus? UNC worst-cuts plan is grim.”

Big dollars, why? (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

In the end, the choice to be the next president of the University of North Carolina system was just down the road a piece, in Davidson. And Tom Ross was well-known all over North Carolina before he'd taken the helm of his alma mater, Davidson College. He had been a Superior Court judge, head of the Administrative Office of the Courts and had run the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. So why did it take over $140,000 and a Dallas-based search firm to find him?

Durham firm with UNC roots raises $3 million
The Triangle Business Journal

Durham-based Novan Inc., a 4-year-old startup spun out of UNC-Chapel Hill, says it has raised $3.05 million in a $3.9 million stock offering. …Founded in 2006 to commercialize technology discovered by UNC-Chapel Hill chemistry professor Mark Schoenfisch, Novan is developing products that help fight drug resistant infections.

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