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Durham and North Carolina public schools have struggled for years to secure adequate funding for their facilities and services. Potentially adding to their ongoing financial problems, Durham Public Schools may face a $7 million funding cut if the state legislature’s current budget plans for 2006 are approved.
For the first time in eight years, faculty salaries did not rise in comparison to the rate of inflation, a study by the American Association of University Professors recently reported. While salaries grew 2.8 percent this year—up from the 2.1 percent increase the year before—the rate of inflation reached 3.3 percent, resulting in a real salary decrease.
Play the lottery and you might win a million dollars. But not in North Carolina.
Politics and religion form a tough pair, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and its chapter of Christian fraternity Alpha Iota Omega are facing the consequences of such a mix.
Education officials are speaking out against President George W. Bush’s new budget—this time because of proposed funding cuts that would eliminate the Perkins Loan program.
Eddie Hull, executive director of housing services and dean of residence life, announced the formation of a task force that will address Campus Council’s concerns about linked housing. <o:p></o:p>
Hard hats and caution signs seem to have become more prevalent on campus than text books.
The domestic violence laws in North Carolina just got tougher.
Overall crime in North Carolina public schools increased during the 2003-2004 school year, but the number of violent crimes--specifically assault on school personnel, sexual assault not involving rape or sexual offense and robbery without a dangerous weapon--decreased, according to the annual report published Nov. 3 by the Department of Public Instruction.
Demonstrating their shock, anger and concern regarding the conflict in Sudan, a large group of students participated in Duke’s National Student Vigil for Darfur Thursday night on the Chapel steps. Students heard reflections from two Sudanese speakers as well as other accounts from Darfur read by members of Justice, a Duke organization advocating for international human rights.
For the first time in 32 years, overall enrollment of foreign students at American universities has declined, according to a report released Nov. 10 by the Institute of International Education.
Although many wish they could be confident in their expectations for the results of Tuesday’s presidential election between President George W. Bush and challenger Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, the heads of Duke’s student political groups agree the race is too close to call early.
North Carolina has taken a lead in raising criticism against the No Child Left Behind Act, the education improvement program President George W. Bush implemented in 2002. Although school officials said they agree with the spirit of the law, many criticize the way in which it measures school progress.
Most people wouldn't consider being prodded with needles as a prescription for pain relief. And yet, as more studies in acupuncture demonstrate its benefits over currently accepted medication, the use of alternative medicine is growing in acceptance and practice in the United States.
With the North Carolina voter registration deadline approaching Friday, Duke students continue to rally their peers to register on the Bryan Center walkway. Yet the University itself seems to have been less active in registering its students—an effort now required by federal law.
In North Carolina the achievement gap among racial and socioeconomic groups in schools remains wide, but administrators continue to address the issue and are optimistic that their efforts will be rewarded.
Who votes in the United States? Who doesn’t? These are two of the questions a panel of professors from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill addressed Sunday in “The Voting Event,” co-sponsored by DRAGnet, the deans of Arts & Sciences and the political science department.
Mayor Bill Bell spoke to a crowd of students Wednesday in the first event of the year for the Duke chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This speech focused on the interaction between Duke and the Durham community,
Two consecutive car accidents on N.C. 147 near Fulton Street claimed the life of one man and injured five other individuals Tuesday evening, according to a press release issued by the Durham Police Department that same night.
North Carolina's statewide shortage of teachers has become critical, according to a report published in late August by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research.
