October 1, 2009
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T is considering replacing a gang-affiliated rapper who is headlining the school’s homecoming event, Chancellor Harold Martin said Wednesday.
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September 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T’s Homecoming celebration draws thousands to Greensboro every year — students, alumni, families and music fans who want to see the hottest names in R&B, hip-hop and rap. But this year’s celebration is a...
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September 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — Last month, UNCG announced the renovation of its historic quad buildings and a new dormitory — first steps in its plan to have more students live on campus. The projected cost for the projects: more than $85 million.
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September 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — This year, amidst economic turmoil that threatens colleges of all sizes, one of the city’s smallest appears to be thriving.
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September 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — Just two weeks shy of the October primary, City Council candidates met with voters Tuesday night at a public forum. Candidates took questions about the city’s trash disposal issues, the police department and other issues at a foru...
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September 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — When UNCG released its new list of prospective layoffs last week, it wasn’t the number that was shocking. The surprise was how many of the eliminated positions began with “director,” “associate provost” or...
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September 14, 2009
GREENSBORO — The first class at Elon University’s School of Law passed the N.C. Bar Exam at a rate of 82.7 percent, besting this year’s overall pass rate of 73 percent. Passing the test, administered by the Board of Law Examiners, is man...
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September 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — UNCG will renovate — rather than demolish — its old quad dorms, school trustees decided Thursday.“UNCG has demonstrated our commitment to historically sensitive renovation,” Chancellor Linda Brady told the board......
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GREENSBORO — When Michael Frontani was a kid, he’d skip school the day John Lennon or Paul McCartney released a new record. He’d go to a store in Dayton, Ohio, and gaze at the album’s cover and devour its liner notes all the way ho...
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September 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — Four years ago, the parking situation had gotten so desperate at UNCG that the school was about to sink $13 million into yet another new parking deck. “We almost did it,” said Scott Milman, director of auxiliary business ope...
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September 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — With the North Carolina Tattoo Convention in its 15th year, it’s no longer just the hard-core body art crowd descending on downtown Greensboro each summer. While plenty of full-arm tattoo sleeves and colorful back shields were on...
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GREENSBORO — UNCG's board of trustees will meet this week to hear Chancellor Linda Brady's recommendation for the campus' quad buildings. The question: whether it makes more sense to tear down the seven buildings and replace them with more modern st...
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September 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — With students moved in at the city’s two largest college campuses, concern about the H1N1 virus, or “swine flu,” has moved front and center. “It’s in the community generally, but when you get a lot of peopl...
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September 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Moody’s Investor Services downgraded millions of dollars worth of High Point University investor debt in May, whispers began about the booming school’s long-term financial health. “I got an e-mail from a friend of...
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GREENSBORO — Despite recent financial and leadership troubles, Greensboro College opened the new school year with strong enrollment — even increasing its number of honors students. There are 1,254 students enrolled this fall, the school said T...
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August 30, 2009
GREENSBORO — The white-supremacist National Socialist Movement held a daylong business meeting Saturday in a location kept secret from counter-demonstrators who decried the movement’s racist ideology in a largely peaceful gathering downtown. T...
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GREENSBORO — Friday was the last day of “add/drop” at UNCG and N.C. A&T — that period early in the semester when students can make adjustments to their class schedules without a penalty. It’s not as stressful as final exa...
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August 26, 2009
ELON — When one of his Elon University students suggested a study of Red Bull energy drinks, Mat Gendle jumped on the idea like a wired freshman the night before finals. Trained in neurotoxicology and neuropharmacology, the associate psychology prof...
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August 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — The crowd gathered to pay their respects to Patricia Sullivan on Monday morning said it all. They came from every corner of the former UNCG chancellor’s life; family, friends, colleagues and students whose presence — and sto...
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August 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — Pat Sullivan never overlooked the little things as she focused on transforming UNCG into a major university.She called students by name as she met them on campus walks. She pointed out loose bricks to maintenance crews. She came into wo...
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August 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — UNCG Chancellor Linda Brady used her state of the campus address Wednesday to focus on the school’s core missions as it copes with budget cuts. “For all of us, it was a year marked by uncertainty and a difficult and constant...
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GREENSBORO — America is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock festival in ways large and small this summer, from major motion pictures to mass-produced, vintage-style T-shirts. But in Greensboro, one celebration of the great music festiv...
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August 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — UNCG’s board of trustees took a look into the school’s future at its meeting Monday afternoon — and what members saw was staggering growth. With a record-breaking fall enrollment projected at nearly 23,000, the school...
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August 14, 2009
CHAPEL HILL — As campuses across the UNC system cut jobs and slash budgets, UNC President Erskine Bowles said Friday the state budget reductions could have been much worse. “This is the toughest economic environment of my lifetime,” Bowl...
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August 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — Chancellor Harold Martin gathered N.C. A&T staff and faculty together Wednesday for the beginning of what he called “a very frank discussion.” After the crowd gave the traditional call of “Aggie Pride,” Marti...
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