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Although North Carolina has many steps to take in its bioterrorism protection efforts, it is one of the most prepared areas of the country, panelists said at a roundtable discussion Monday.
After passing through the Durham City Council primary unopposed, John Best and incumbent Erick Larson will challenge each other for the Ward 3 seat in the Nov. 6 election.
The majority of North Carolina charter schools are testing under par, according to test results released Oct. 4, but education officials remain positive about the schools' potential.
At a meeting of the Durham County Board of Commissioners Monday, the consideration of school impact fees evoked what commissioner Ellen Reckhow called "a very spirited debate."
At a panel Wednesday night, candidates for Durham City Council and mayor heatedly discussed their opinions on issues ranging from affordable housing to capital punishment.
This is the second in a five-part series profiling mayoral candidates.
Although North Carolina's average SAT score of 992 ranked only 47th in the nation this year, education officials are pointing to other sources of measurement that show the progress of the state's programs.
To those of you who long to live in Chapel Hill: Think again. Finding a house there would likely cost you over $300,000. In fact, in the entire area of Chapel Hill, there are only 15 housing units that cost less than $150,000, and even those units are extremely small and old. That has some local officials worried.
The report released by President Nan Keohane last month on the state of minority representation on campus showed recent declines in the numbers of black students and professors in the Divinity School. School officials credited the decline to a short-term fluctuation rather than a long-term trend and cited ongoing efforts to attract more minorities.
Since Monday's finalization of Wake County school system's exclusive beverage deal to make Pepsi its sole soft drink vendor, debates over the decision have pitted school officials who hail the deal's fund-raising potential against a coalition of parents, nutritionists and board members worried about the health impact on students.
Vine Deloria, a prominent spokesperson for Native-American nationalism during the last four decades, will lecture on "Parochialism and the Global Perspective," in Page Auditorium Thursday, marking the end of a three-year-long lecture series on diverse cultures.
As the Divinity School approaches its 75th anniversary, the school's administration is depending on a year-long celebration to draw attention to its academic strategic plan.
The approval process for the $77 million Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering and Applied Sciences, which could triple the size of the Pratt School of Engineering to approximately 240,000 square feet, is currently underway.
When Clint Bolick and Helen Ladd met yesterday in front of approximately 80 people to debate the merits of school vouchers, the key element that emerged was the question of choice.
Changes in Baptist seminaries across the country and recruitment efforts at Duke have this year yielded the largest number of Baptist students to ever enroll in the Divinity School, a traditionally Methodist institution.
