May 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Harold Martin takes over as N.C. A&T’s new chancellor June 8, he’ll be on familiar ground. As an alum who’s also been a professor, dean and administrator at the university, there isn’t much he doesn&rsqu...
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May 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T welcomed back alumnus and former faculty member Harold Martin on Friday morning, this time as its new chancellor. “It is a great pleasure to come home,” Martin told the crowd assembled at the UNC Board of...
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May 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — When the UNC Board of Governors meets today to announce N.C. A&T’s new chancellor, many Aggies may see it more as a “welcome home.” Harold Martin, an A&T alumnus and former chancellor of Winston Salem State Uni...
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May 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — The UNC Board of Governors is expected Friday to select prominent N.C. A&T alumnus Harold Martin as the university’s next chancellor, according to sources close to the process. Martin, who serves as senior vice president for a...
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May 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — The UNC Board of Governors is expected to select prominent N.C. A&T alumnus Harold Martin as the university’s next chancellor Friday, according to sources close to the process.
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May 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — The search for N.C. A&T’s next chancellor is down to just two candidates, according to the chairman of the school’s search committee. “We’ve submitted two names to (UNC President) Erskine Bowles,” said...
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May 16, 2009
Greensboro College raised more than $1 million this month, according to a letter from schools leaders to staff, with most of the money coming from its Board of Trustees. Trustees have been under fire from students and faculty as the school’s finance...
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May 15, 2009
Gov. Bev Perdue had a story for the more than 2,200 students assembled at the Greensboro Coliseum for UNCG’s graduation Friday. It was a story about her own college days. “Even two years ago, when I decided to run for governor, I d...
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GREENSBORO — Today’s graduation will become one of UNCG senior Bethany Marshall’s most treasured memories. And she knows the value of memories because she’s lost so many. Marshall, 25, suffered amnesia after a bout of viral encepha...
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May 13, 2009
President Barack Obama’s proposed education budget is worrying students and leaders at the city’s historically black colleges. At issue: a federal program that provided an extra $85 million to black institutions for each of the past two years...
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May 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Greensboro College Board of Trustees met Thursday amid staff unrest over slashed salaries, budget cuts and questions about the school’s future. “The faculty and the staff are concerned, and they have a reason to be conce...
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May 5, 2009
GREENSBORO — James Pettiford says he has a hard time describing his anger when he learned N.C. A&T Chancellor Stanley Battle will collect his chancellor’s salary during a six-month sabbatical after he resigns — and then take a tenure...
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May 4, 2009
When Linda Brady is officially installed as UNCG’s chancellor Tuesday, she’ll be the school’s 10th leader in 117 years. A chancellor’s installation ceremony is usually a long, lavish affair — but those in attendance Tuesday m...
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May 3, 2009
GREENSBORO — Layoffs and budget cuts have had students at UNC system schools counting their losses recently. But this month, the UNC Board of Governors might have good news for them: dramatically better student health insurance. The new plan, which...
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May 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Linda Brady became chancellor of UNCG last August, she couldn’t have known what kind of freshman year she was about to have. In her first nine months, the country entered a financial crisis, the state was forced to slash its...
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April 28, 2009
As the school year closes, graduates from area colleges are tallying their credit hours and picking up caps and gowns. Joining the pomp and circumstance are commencement speakers, including a man who has gone to the moon, an award-winning TV journalist an...
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April 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — The tension was palpable Thursday as students gathered in Greensboro College’s Finch Chapel to question President Craven Williams on recent layoffs and budget cuts. The cuts, announced last week, were severe. All staff and faculty...
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April 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Greensboro College announced staff and salary cuts last week, many at the school were in a state of shock. The cuts were sweeping and to the bone: All faculty and staff salaries cut by 20 percent. Retirement matching and dental in...
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April 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan spoke out today against Time Warner Cable’s recent effort to measure and limit Triad customers’ Internet use. The company delayed the plan this week after a backlash from customers.
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GREENSBORO — Students, staff and faculty at UNCG have been divided for weeks over what to do with the campus Quad. The seven buildings that make up the historic area are some of the oldest on campus — and in the worst shape. The university is...
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April 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Time Warner Cable announced it would postpone its plan to measure and cap cable Internet service Thursday, many customers celebrated. But as they read the fine print, they realized the fight wasn’t over. Though company...
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GREENSBORO — UNCG’s trustees said Thursday they aren’t ready to decide the fate of some of the school’s oldest dormitories. The board asked Chancellor Linda Brady and her staff to do more work on options for the dorms before presen...
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April 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — Last week, Gov. Bev Perdue ordered that state agencies halt all nonessential spending and travel. This week, UNCG and N.C. A&T are finding out just how serious she was. “We’re having to be quite careful,” said Jef...
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GREENSBORO — Time Warner Cable customers will protest the company’s new caps on Internet data use outside the company’s Spring Garden Street office Saturday. The protest, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1813 Spring Garden St., is planned for t...
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GREENSBORO — After a meeting Wednesday with a group of passionate alumni, UNCG Chancellor Linda Brady said the school is nowhere near a decision on what to do with seven of its oldest buildings. Built between 1919 and 1923, the dormitories make up t...
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