July 17, 2011
ASHEBORO — They are professional photographers scattered all over the world. They shoot album covers with major recording artists, work on photo shoots for magazines in exotic locations, even toil on hospital ship off the coast of Africa, documentin...
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May 15, 2011
HIGH POINT— When High Point University (HPU) leaders decided to offer a master’s program in strategic communication, they first took a hard look at the rapidly changing field.
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April 17, 2011
Brooks Copeland didn’t intend to work in supply chain management after college. In fact, when he graduated from the Citadel in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Copeland wasn’t really sure what he wanted to do.
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March 20, 2011
HIGH POINT — It’s a perfect match, really: an interior design program located in High Point, aka the “Furniture Capital of the World.” And the fast-growing university there is taking full advantage of its proximity to the furniture...
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February 20, 2011
When Josette Casterlow entered her freshman year at N.C. A&T in fall 2003, she thought she knew one thing for sure: She didn’t want to be a teacher. “My mother owns a child care center here in Greensboro and I always helped out there,&rdqu...
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December 19, 2010
Take one step into the Technical Education Center at GTCC’s Greensboro campus and it’s clear the community college is preparing for the future of manufacturing technology.
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November 21, 2010
When Brook Corwin graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2004 with a double major in journalism and history, his career path was clear. With a few journalism internships already under his belt, Corwin quickly found a job, starting out as a staff reporter at th...
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October 17, 2010
Frank Hughes always loved playing around with computers. “I am a computer geek,” the 44-year-old says with a laugh. “It started in 1983, in high school, when I was introduced to the Apple II, and I immediately jumped right in and fell i...
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September 19, 2010
When Brian Burnett, a detective with the Greensboro Police Department, started thinking about going back to school to earn a bachelor’s degree, it wasn’t necessarily because he needed a degree to advance within the department. At the time, Bur...
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August 15, 2010
As a child, Stefanie Milroy knew what she wanted to be when she grew up thanks to her grandmother, who worked for the Guilford County Department of Public Health. “I became interested in public health when I went to work with her,” Milroy says...
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June 20, 2010
Cathy Vickers started college at Appalachian State University as an 18-year-old freshman and had the best of intentions to finish a degree in four years.
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May 16, 2010
After practicing medicine for more than 20 years, Dr. Walter Pharr has learned that one thing is more important than his experience — or even his medical knowledge.
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November 1, 2009
The winding path entices visitors to come into the garden where the colors, smells and benches invite them to linger.
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March 29, 2009
Renovating a home to make it more energy efficient can pay off significantly with boosts for the environment and your pocketbook. In fact, changes “will typically save $330 to $500 per year in heating, cooling and hot water bills,” said Larry...
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February 8, 2009
LinkedIn. Facebook. MySpace. With unemployment numbers rising, how useful can online social networking be for job seekers? One couple recently demonstrated that these resources, when used appropriately, can assist greatly in digging up job openings that m...
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January 17, 2009
And so it happened again the other day. A fellow parent asked me why we go to church on Sunday when you can pray just as easily at home and be just as close to God outside of church as inside. And I get it. Life with kids these days is hectic, hurried...
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November 2, 2008
From the outside, the house looks fairly typical — a 1952 brick ranch nestled in the Hamilton Forest neighborhood in northwest Greensboro. Yet a step inside Tim and Kim Oaks’ home reveals that it is far from run-of-the-mill.
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October 5, 2008
North Carolina has the fifth fastest growing education system in the nation, but it’s commonly known that the need for new teachers each year is outpacing the number of college graduates who will go into education careers. To play catch-up, school syste...
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June 1, 2008
Forget the dark blue suit in today’s job market. Pajamas might be the norm when interviewing with a company. That is, when the first interview is conducted over the phone. Phone interviews are used as time-saving tools for employers who are seeking...
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Professionally dressed? Check. Copies of resume, proofed and ready to pass out? Check. Firm handshake as you meet recruiters from companies at the job fair? Check. Landing a job is almost a certainty now, right? Wrong. Meeting company representatives at a...
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