Meredith College may have fewer than 2,300 students, but these scholars, along with teachers, staff and alumna, form a loyal and fiery group.
Modified: 11/21/09 05:52:49 AM
Wake County students and teachers dealing with overcrowded classrooms and fewer courses aren't going to get relief next year and could actually experience even worse conditions.
Modified: 11/19/09 10:36:32 PM
A District Court judge ordered an 84-year-old Raleigh woman to pay $500 and surrender her driver's license for one year as punishment for hitting and killing a 6-year-old girl at a bus stop this summer.
Modified: 11/20/09 05:34:55 AM
Students at UNC-Chapel Hill will continue to pay far less for their educations than peers at most of the campus's competitors under a tuition plan approved Thursday. And that, some say, is a problem.
Modified: 11/19/09 10:36:28 PM
SciQuest, a Cary technology company whose software allows businesses and universities to order supplies and services online, has signed a major new client: the University of North Carolina.
Modified: 11/18/09 09:09:32 PM
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A seven-year snapshot of graduation rates released Wednesday by the NCAA placed the N.C. State men's basketball program in the bottom half of the ACC academically.
Modified: 11/19/09 06:03:00 AM
A planned tuition increase at UNC-Chapel Hill is meeting some opposition from students who want more say in the process.
Modified: 11/18/09 09:09:12 PM
Every year around Oct. 15, Duke University staffers go to the forest off Lemur Lane to rattle a bucket of chow and summon primates in from the impending cold.
Modified: 11/18/09 09:09:03 PM
Principals were named Tuesday to six Wake County schools, including four opening next year.
Modified: 11/18/09 09:09:34 PM
For now, spending will go ahead on the current Forest Ridge High property.
Modified: 11/19/09 08:20:39 AM
The Wake school board requests permission Tuesday for 66 schools to exceed state class size limits.
Modified: 11/18/09 07:18:33 AM
John Grisham, author of 23 books, including several best-selling legal thrillers, will give UNC-Chapel Hill's spring commencement address.
Modified: 11/17/09 11:38:22 PM
Sheehan:
So a Goldsboro principal was pressured to retire early after asking parents to send in $20 in exchange for a little sweetener in their kids' grades.
Modified: 11/17/09 11:23:22 PM
Orange County school board member Ted Triebel won't serve any jail time after being convicted of driving while impaired after his single-car crash a year ago.
Modified: 11/17/09 11:08:34 PM
The Triangle's public universities continued to hire faculty members this year even as cuts to swelling administrative ranks put many employees out of work.
Modified: 11/17/09 04:08:57 AM
Wake's magnet school system, the daily face of education for 27,000 students, probably will go through a gradual transformation starting two weeks from Tuesday.
Modified: 11/16/09 04:17:42 AM
Robert Greczyn Jr., outgoing CEO for the state's largest health insurer, confesses that he doesn't read the obligatory books about leadership or management.
Modified: 11/15/09 08:12:51 AM
Harold Webb, the chairman of the Wake County Board of Commissioners, is recovering from a stroke he suffered in early October.
Modified: 11/15/09 05:17:46 AM
The University of North Carolina announced Friday that it is changing the leadership of a troubled $10 million program aimed at helping deployed soldiers of the National Guard and Army Reserves.
Modified: 11/14/09 05:03:26 AM
The singer uses his blog to call the recently elected Wake school board members "selfish idiots."
Modified: 11/20/09 04:51:46 PM
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