Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Search for 1st Web page by European physicists is as elusive as mysteries of the universe
The Associated Press
…After National Public Radio did a story on the search, a professor at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill came forward with a 1991 version. Paul Jones met Berners-Lee during the British scientist’s visit to the U.S. for a conference in 1991, just a year after Berners-Lee invented the Web. Jones said Berners-Lee shared the page with the professor, who has transferred it from server to server through the years. A version remains on the Internet today at an archive Jones runs, ibiblio.
Ma, There's a MOOC Under My Bed
Inside Higher Ed
…Northwestern University, where I teach, will begin in the fall a pilot year of "Semester Online," a consortium project in which Northwestern students can take and receive credit for online courses from schools like Boston College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emory University and elsewhere. Northwestern professors, likewise, may teach classes online to students at colleges in the consortium. Such expansive online offerings could be especially useful in the future to my students, as I teach in Northwestern's journalism program in Qatar, over 7,000 miles from Evanston, Ill.
U.S. lung allocation system aims for objectivity, fairness (Opinion-Editorial Column)
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
There is another solution on the horizon. My lab at the University of North Carolina has pioneered the idea that lungs might be suitable for transplant even if retrieved after death from so-called "non-heart-beating donors." These are people who have died of cardiac arrest outside the hospital or in the emergency room; circulation has stopped for a period of time (conventional organ donors have been on a ventilator before brain death and organ retrieval). (Dr. Thomas M. Egan is professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)
Iran: Presidential elections without buzz (Column)
CNN
"Why does it seem that the elections are only being held on Facebook? Why is there no commotion on the streets yet? Where are the people?" This is a question that a journalist based in Tehran posted on his Facebook account eight days before election day. (Ali Reza Eshraghi was a senior editor at several of Iran's reformist dailies. He is Iran's Project Manager at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and a teaching fellow in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)
Holding Colleges Responsible
Inside Higher Ed
If Andrea Pino hadn’t been drafted to help with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's search for the employee who would handle Title IX complaints, the national landscape of sexual assault activism might not look so dramatically different than it did just a year ago. …But it wasn’t the problems at UNC that led Pino to help write the federal complaint that was largely responsible for pushing a nationwide watershed moment for sexual assault on college campuses into the national spotlight. It was the subsequent realization that the situation at UNC was far from unique.
Whole Different Ball Game
Inside Higher Ed
…Holden Thorp, the departing chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill whose decision earlier this year to step down was closely tied to athletics and academic controversies, has become outspoken about the need to get university presidents out of the day-to-day operations of athletics departments, inspiring high-profile columnists to weigh in on the subject.
Related Links:
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/06/11/unc-chair-fired-over
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/uncs-academic-fraud-cost-scandal_n_3416389.html
State and Local Coverage
UNC institute partners with VGCC on early childhood education
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is partnering with Vance-Granville Community College in Louisburg to better prepare early childhood educators who will work with young children with disabilities and in diverse classrooms. Tracey Bennett, who serves as VGCC’s early childhood education department chair, said in a statement that the partnership with Chapel Hill’s Child Development Institute has allowed her team to examine their role in the community and revise some of VGCC’s education courses, according to a UNC news release.
UNC School of Nursing helps start new Snow Camp health center
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
A new nurse-managed health center opened this month at an Alamance County elementary school to offer primary care services in rural North Carolina. The Sylvan Community Health Center, based out of Sylvan Elementary School in Snow Camp, held its ribbon cutting Thursday. The center is part of a collaboration between the UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing, the Alamance-Burlington School System and Piedmont Health, according to a UNC news release.
Ask the experts: Reap rewards by investing in student interns
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Patrick Vernon, a former entertainment entrepreneur who has been teaching entrepreneurship at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School since 2006, gets all sorts of requests for student interns. Unfortunately, small businesses are too often just looking for cheap or free labor. “It doesn’t work that way,” Vernon said. “A hastily written ‘intern wanted’ paragraph widely distributed to various student groups will yield nothing.”
'Moral Monday' brings dozens more arrests at state capitol in Raleigh
The Fayetteville Observer
…Dr. Leland Webb, a retired dentist and professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, held his sign on the Halifax Mall green space. The sign told others that Webb was a North Carolinian who was born, raised and worked in the state. He said legislators need to listen to the people about protecting the environment and voter rights. "The legislation doesn't represent all of North Carolina, but a small group that got them elected," he said. "I'm here to represent the people who can't be here, my family, my friends and people in rural North Carolina in jobs they can't leave."
Choices – Medical data merit region's attention (Editorial)
The Fayetteville Observer
In a region where Medicare walks hand-in-hand with Tricare and there are retirees enough to form an army, cost discrepancies are serious business. …"Putting charges out there without any explanation isn't helpful," said Don Dalton of the N.C. Hospital Association. "Every case is going to be different," noted Vince Benbenek, Cape Fear Valley spokesman. The database isn't much good for hospital-shopping, warned Sally Stearns, health economist at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Massaging image won’t solve UNC troubles (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A much-discussed “investigation” of an academic scandal sponsored by the University of North Carolina put the prestige and reputation of a former governor, Jim Martin, behind findings that concluded the African studies department’s “no-show” paper courses were all about academics and did not reflect a scandal in athletics.
Issues and Trends
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki talks military ed with UNC's Tom Ross
The Associated Press
The former four-star Army general who heads the U.S. Veterans Affairs Department is meeting with North Carolina's public universities president. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki meets Tuesday with University of North Carolina President Tom Ross and other university leaders to talk about the GI Bill and helping veterans and their dependents graduate. Ross oversees the 16 taxpayer-supported universities in the UNC system.
House passes its tax plan; budget up next
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It’s usually negotiations over the state budget that have legislators sweating in June, but this year big decisions on both taxing and spending are testing their juggling skills. Lawmakers are working on a major overhaul of the tax code that will determine how much money the state can spend in the new budget year starting July 1 and in future years.
New transportation money formula could doom Triangle trains
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
State leaders are moving fast on a sweeping new transportation spending formula that will make it easier to find money for strategically important highway and freight railroad projects – and almost impossible to find money for passenger trains, sidewalks, bicycles and regional transit. …A planned light-rail line from UNC-Chapel Hill to Duke University would win state funding only if it was rated higher than local road and bridge needs in Division 5 – and also in Orange County’s Division 7, which is centered in Greensboro.