May 25, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM — The UNC School of the Arts has named the new dean of its School of Drama. The school announced today that Carl Forsman will start the job July 1.Forsman is the founding artistic director of the Keen Company, a New York theatre c...
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County Schools wants to change the way it awards some of its construction projects to increase the number of minority contractors getting work.School officials told members of the Board of Education on Thursday that they want t...
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May 24, 2012
CHAPEL HILL -- Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill want to know how courses with little or no supervision from professors could have continued for years before building into a case of academic fraud. The News & Observer of...
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Photo galleries from high school graduations in Guilford County are available first in the multimedia player at news-record.com.Click a school name below to view a gallery. Click here to buy photo reprints.May 23The Academy at High Point Central May 22Mid...
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A commencement ceremony for The Academy at High Point Central was held Wednesday.View a photo gallery
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County Schools hopes to open a new magnet school on time in fall 2013, despite a design firm’s decision to pull out of the project before finishing.Still, the district could see its costs rise significantly for the renova...
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May 23, 2012
CHAPEL HILL — The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Kenan-Flagler Business School have partnered to launch a dual-degree program offering medical students the opportunity to earn doctor of medicine and master's of business administration degree...
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GREENSBORO —The UNCG Bryan School of Business and Economics is offering two new online graduate programs in global apparel supply chain management, including a new master’s degree concentration and a new certificate.UNCG’s master's...
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The commencement for the Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro in Jamestown was held Tuesday. View a photo gallery
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May 22, 2012
Guilford County Schools has announced that the Early College at Guilford is ranked among the nation’s best 100 high schools in reports from The Washington Post and The Daily Beast. The school earned the No. 1 ranking among North Carolina high school...
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SPENCER (AP) — A North Carolina high school teacher was suspended with pay from her job Monday following the release of a YouTube video )see below) in which she is heard yelling at a student in class and telling him it's wrong to criticize President...
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Middle College at GTCC-High Point held its graduation ceremony Monday in the Koury Auditorium on the GTCC campus in Jamestown.During the ceremony, the Suttles family accepted an honorary diploma for Ricky Suttles, 17, one of five children shot and killed...
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May 21, 2012
GREENSBORO -- Marilyn Foley will leave Page High this summer to lead students and staff at Eastern Guilford High, according to a Monday announcement by Guilford County Schools. “We believe Ms. Foley will build on the progress that has been made at...
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DAVIDSON — A businessman and former Davidson College trustee has given the school a $25 million gift.Davidson College President Carol Quillen announced the donation during commencement Sunday.She says the money will support The Davidson Trust.The go...
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GREENSBORO — A major study by UNCG researchers could lead to more effective treatment for college students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, better known as ADHD.The university is among three to share a $3 million, five-year grant to st...
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May 20, 2012
GREENSBORO — Elon law student Gwendolyn Lewis sat in on the John Edwards campaign-finance trial during the cross-examination of Andrew Young, the prosecution’s star witness.Young wasn’t an easy witness, Lewis said, but defense attorney A...
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May 19, 2012
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — University of North Carolina President Emeritus William Friday has been upgraded to serious condition at UNC Hospitals, two days after receiving a permanent pacemaker. Hospital spokeswoman Stephanie Mahin released no additio...
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Greensboro College Middle College held its 11th annual commencement exercise Friday at the college.View a photo gallery
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May 18, 2012
ELON — Raghu Tadepalli has been named dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University following a national search. He begins his duties July 1. Tadepalli comes to Elon from Babson College in Massachusetts where he ser...
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Harris Teeter plans to share its good luck in selling the winning ticket in a recent Carolina Cash 5 jackpot with four schools in Guilford County. Morehead Elementary, Grimsley High School, Our Lady of Grace and Ragsdale High School will get $1,000 each i...
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A commencement was held Thursday at the Middle College at N.C. A&T.The all-male school had a 100 percent graduation rate and 100 percent college acceptance.View a photo gallery
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A commencement ceremony for Middle College at Bennett was held Thursday at Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel on the Bennett College campus.View a photo gallery
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WINSTON-SALEM — A former Reynolds High School teacher has been convicted of misdemeanor assault on a female over an incident in February in which he pinned a student between her desk and a wall after she cursed at him several times.Forsyth District...
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May 17, 2012
HICKORY (AP) — A middle-school teacher in Caldwell County has been suspended after officials learned that she disciplined a special needs child by placing him in a cardboard box. The Hickory Daily News reports that Joy Amatuccio found out this week...
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KNIGHTDALE (AP) — Authorities say 14 middle school students in Wake County suffered burns on their feet after hot water and steam came up through the floor of their school bus.Officials said the Wendell Middle School students had minor burns and bli...
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