Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
MBAs: Schools look to instil digital competencies
Financial Times (United Kingdom)
…A pioneer of the online delivery of programmes is the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School, which launched its MBA@UNC degree in 2011. While the programme has been designed to retain the rigour of its full-time equivalent, the technology allows students to work from anywhere. As well as accessing interactive course content on demand, students connect face-to-face with faculty and peers via a virtual classroom. Weekly class attendance is compulsory, irrespective of location. “There is, in fact, an intensity which does not always exist in person,” says Doug Shackleford, the programme’s associate dean.
National Coverage
Super storm Sandy washed away years of NYU scientists' work
The Los Angeles Times
… So what happens now for those scientists whose research subjects and materials were wiped out? A number of universities and other academic institutions, including Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, have offered to help reconstitute NYU’s research stock.
How Big Data Could Determine the Winner of Today's Election
The Huffington Post
…In an article for Stanford Law Review, Daniel Kreiss, a journalism professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, explains how this can have negative long-term consequences for democratic participation. With so much sensitive personal information in so many hands, there are risks of data breaches and unauthorized disclosure.
N.C. crowd watches Ohio (Blog)
The Washington Post
…Loren Kent, 40, a teacher in a rural part of Johnston County, which voted over 61 percent Republican in 2008, supported Obama because she thinks he’s pro-education. Pamela Austin, 59, who is about to retire as a cook from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says she appreciates Obama’s fair pay, abortion rights and gay marriage positions.
Emil Kang and The Rite of Spring
The Huffington Post
It's been a busy fall for Emil Kang. For the past four years as Executive Director of Carolina Performing Arts, Kang has been planning The Rite of Spring at 100, an exploration of Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky's famous ballet that caused a riot at its premiere in 1913.
State and Local Coverage
The Transformation of Democracy
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
People sometimes say that voting is the most effective way for everyone to participate in a democracy, but that’s not the way it started. In Athens, democracy began with only men gathering in public places to decide the future of their community. How did we go from there to here? Democracy ended in ruins in Athens; will it happen that way in the United States? Host Frank Stasio talks about the history of democracy with Brendan Boyle, professor of classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Michael Gillespie, professor of philosophy at Duke University; Jean Dennison, professor of anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill and author of “Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First Century Osage Nation” (UNC Press/2012); and Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, editor and publisher of Bull Spec, a speculative fiction magazine based out of Durham.
Search for UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor hears views
The Associated Press
The search committee shopping for a new chancellor for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill wants people to share what they hope to see in the next campus leader. The search committee is holding four meetings on Wednesday and Thursday to hear first from staff, then area residents and alumni, followed by faculty and students.
Related Link:
http://triangle.news14.com/content/669516/students–staff-
to-weigh-in-on-unc-chancellor-search
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5662/68/
Don't get burned in the natural gas market (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Are you ready to go into the financial markets and invest in natural gas? Not just local distribution companies but gas producers. This should be a good time. In the past few years, fracking has spurred the discovery of vast new reserves of natural gas, and gas is a “hot” topic financially. (John J.W. Rogers is retired as the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of geology at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Care shortages (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In his Oct. 31 Point of View article (“Healthy benefits if Obamacare survives”), Jonathan Oberlander of UNC-Chapel Hill gave us a pie in the sky overview of the top-down, fully bureaucratized system of health care known as "Obamacare." (Craig B. Mitchell, Raleigh)
Some cereals as sugary as candy (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
If you have kids at home, you’ve probably got something in your pantry that’s as sweet a treat as leftover Halloween candy: their breakfast cereal. It’s the bane of parents. How can you get your child to eat a hearty breakfast if it doesn’t taste good? A box of Lucky Charms (with a prize inside) wins out over bran flakes any day. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical associate professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Issues and Trends
With Obama's Win, Colleges Anticipate 4 More Years of Reform
The Chronicle of Higher Education
American voters re-elected Barack Obama as president on Tuesday, extending the White House stay of an administration that has focused on expanding federal student aid as well as tightening regulations on colleges and universities.
Governor: McCrory becomes first Republican to win governor’s race in 20 years
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Pat McCrory became the first Republican elected governor in 20 years, easily defeating his rival Tuesday and giving his party complete control of lawmaking for the first time since the 1800s.
State Legislature: GOP keeps reins, adds to its majority
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Two years ago, Republicans won control of the state legislature and proceeded to draw new districts to favor their party. Two years later, on Tuesday, the new maps helped the GOP build its majority at the statehouse.
Orange County approves transit sales tax
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Orange County voters on Tuesday approved a half-cent sales tax supporters say will greatly improve transit service throughout the county. The sales tax is expected to generate about $5 million a year with the revenue going toward new buses, improved bus service, an Amtrak station in Hillsborough and a proposed light rail connection from UNC to downtown Durham.
Chapel Hill delays bus ad decision
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Town Council could decide Dec. 3 what to do with its bus advertising policy after asking Carrboro and UNC, its partners in Chapel Hill Transit, what they think.