Month: December 2024

3. Saint Augustine’s University enters partnership with sports development firm

Zachery Eanes/Axios Raleigh Saint Augustine’s University, a historically Black college near downtown Raleigh, has entered into a partnership with a sports and mixed-use development company as part of effort to address its severe financial challenges. Why it matters: Details on the what the partnership with 50 Plus 1 Sports entails are still unclear, though WRAL […]

Written by on December 2, 2024

4. RFK Jr.’s comments on Ozempic: What to know

Paige Twenter/Becker’s Hospital Review Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was recently nominated to lead HHS during Donald Trump’s second presidency, has cast doubt on Ozempic’s potential health effects. The FDA approved the injectable medicine to treat Type 2 diabetes in 2017, and it could be approved to treat kidney disease-related events by early 2025. Other […]

Written by on December 2, 2024

5. Canton paper mill environmental report released: Findings offer few surprises

Kyle Perrotti/Smoky Mountain News Almost a year after its internal publication, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has made public a report detailing the results of comprehensive ground and surface water sampling required at and around the site on which the now shut-down Pactiv Evergreen papermill sits. In the months since the mill announced […]

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7. Proposal asks NCHSAA board to consider moving schools without ‘defined attendance zone’ to separate playoffs

Nick Stevens/HighSchoolOT Should the N.C. High School Athletic Association designate separate playoffs for schools that do not have a defined attendance zone set by a local school district? That is the question one school is hoping the NCHSAA Board of Directors will ask its member schools. Dr. Jonathan Tribula of Nash Central High School submitted […]

Written by on December 2, 2024

8. City: MWBE program advances

Pat Kimbrough/High Point Enterprise City officials say they’ve made changes to the way High Point seeks to engage with minority and women-owned businesses. MWBE coordinator Cynthia Barnes told a City Council committee last week that she’s revised outdated bid solicitation documents the city sends out when it’s seeking vendors to perform construction projects or provide […]

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9. RDU to launch new international flight to Vancouver

Keaton Eberly/CBS 17 News Another international travel option will soon be offered to those flying out of the Triangle area. Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) announced Monday that Air Canada will begin nonstop flights to Vancouver International Airport in June 2025. “Triangle travelers are receiving a welcome gift this holiday season with Air Canada announcing it […]

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10. Charlotte’s Leadership Community and Engagement office gains attraction post-DEI removal

Sofia DiStefano/Niner Times Following the closures of UNC Charlotte’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) related offices, Charlotte’s Leadership & Community Engagement (LCE) office has stepped into the spotlight as a presumed recipient of resources and funding previously used for DEI. In its early days, the LCE office was a minor campus program known as the […]

Written by on December 2, 2024

UNC System untroubled by high admission rates at ECU, other campuses

If you’re anticipating any criticism from the UNC System office of East Carolina University defacto open-admissions policy, well, you’re likely to be disappointed. The line there is that the Greenville school’s 89% acceptance rate (and by extension, similar percentages from such campuses as App State, UNC Greensboro and Western Carolina) is partly a function of […]

Written by on December 2, 2024

N.C. A&T preps launch of AI degree

N.C. A&T State University is preparing to launch the UNC System’s first AI-specific bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2025. The campus got system Board of Governors approval in November, and announced it just before the Thanksgiving holiday.  The new degree “will prepare students for immediate impact, especially in the critical area of human […]

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Mack Brown, unplugged

Mack Brown’s ouster as UNC Chapel Hill’s football coach is generating far more controversy than I thought would’ve been the case after his team gave up 70 points to visiting James Madison back in September. And it’s controversy of the sort that could once again test UNC System President Peter Hans’ insistence that on system […]

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A&T counting down to launch of new AI degree

N.C. A&T State University is preparing to launch the UNC System’s first AI-specific bachelor’s degree program in the fall of 2025. The campus got system Board of Governors approval in November and announced it just before the Thanksgiving holiday. The new degree “will prepare students for immediate impact, especially in the critical area of human […]

Written by on December 2, 2024

Mack leaves, noisily

Mack Brown’s ouster as UNC Chapel Hill’s football coach is generating far more controversy than I thought would’ve been the case after his team gave up 70 points to visiting James Madison back in September. And it’s a controversy that could once again test UNC System President Peter Hans’ insistence that on system campuses, chancellors […]

Written by on December 2, 2024

University admissions

If you’re anticipating any criticism from the UNC System office of East Carolina University’s defacto open-admissions policy, well, you’re likely to be disappointed. The line there is that the Greenville school’s 89% acceptance rate (and by extension, similar percentages from such campuses as App State, UNC Greensboro and Western Carolina) is partly a function of […]

Written by on December 2, 2024

1. Congress eyes $100 billion in disaster relief. How much could North Carolina get?

Will Doran/WRAL News Only two months after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina in the worst natural disaster to hit the region in modern history, the state’s recovery efforts have become bogged down by political infighting and, critics say, overshadowed by other priorities. It’s a contrast with Washington, where the federal government’s efforts have so […]

Written by on December 1, 2024