Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
US tech company 2U expands network of university partners
Financial Times (United Kingdom)
…The programme will mix live interactive sessions in an online classroom with coursework posted online for students to access at their convenience. This framework has been successfully used in the 2U-supported MBA@UNC degree launched by the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2011.
National Coverage
Obama Is Using the Permacampaign to Change Washington From the Outside
The Atlantic
…This isn't the first time the president has reached out to the American people — or turned to Twitter — to affect public policy. During a political fight in April to extend student-loan rates, the president told an audience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Call your member of Congress. Email them. Write on their Facebook page. Tweet them — we've got a hashtag … #dontdoublemyrate."
NCAA's Tolerance for Dissenting Views at Its Academic Forum Appears in Doubt
The Chronicle of Higher Education
…Richard M. Southall, director of the College Sport Research Council at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was on the colloquium's first abstract-review committee and has had two papers accepted for the forthcoming conference, said there had been tensions around the forum from the start.
State and Local Coverage
Cohen to give address
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Myron Cohen, a physician and researcher who has spent the last three decades studying the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, will speak at UNC Chapel Hill’s winter commencement ceremony, continuing a tradition of members of the faculty delivering the December address. Chancellor Holden Thorp will preside at the ceremony for students who graduated in August as well as those graduating Sunday.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5745/107/
Spirit of Inquiry Award (Under the Dome)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy awarded its Spirit of Inquiry Award to Jonathon Anomaly, a visiting professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. The award honors college instructors for teaching courses that “expand students’ ability to think and express their ideas within the context of an academic discipline.” Anomaly was recognized for his course on philosophy, politics and economics, taught at both schools, and for a political science course taught at Duke.
Related Link:
http://projects.newsobserver.com/node/26529
Caution lights at UNC-CH over no-show classes (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Was it a subject those up the administrative ladder at UNC-Chapel Hill simply didn’t want to discuss? Were there fears that powerful coaches might be offended? Why were deans and associate deans in the multiple layers of administration not talking to each other about academics and athletes?