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ABA Journal
California may offer more opportunities for JDs taught entirely online
California is one of a few states that allows people who didn’t graduate from an ABA-accredited law school to sit for the bar exam. Considering that, the trend of expanding online legal education will probably not grow past California, according to Ellen Murphy, associate dean of strategic initiatives and professor of practice at Wake Forest School of Law. “This is based in part on the profession and the academy’s resistance to change and the continued unfamiliarity with effective online teaching and learning,” said Murphy. “A more likely predictor will be the outcomes data from those ABA-accredited programs that are operating under a hybrid program variance from the ABA.”
January 14, 2020
The Guardian
‘Like a bomb going off’: why Brazil’s largest reserve is facing destruction
The mercury that miners use to separate gold particles from mud and silt is dumped into rivers and burned off into the air, says Luis Fernandez, a tropical ecologist and director at the Wake Forest Centre for Amazon Scientific Innovation in the US. Mercury spreads into the aquatic ecosystem via a process called biomagnification and concentrates rapidly as it passes up the food chain. “The food chain acts like a signal amplifier,” he says. “Environmental chemistry in the tropics is much faster than in temperate regions.”
January 13, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
King Day observances, closings, changes
Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State University will have their 20th annual celebration to honor King’s legacy at 7 p.m. Monday in Wait Chapel. This year’s theme is “On Common Ground: Lifting as We Climb.” The Wake Forest Gospel Choir and the WSSU University Choir will perform. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the best-selling, “How to be an Antiracist,” will deliver the keynote speech. Kendi is a professor of history and international relations at American University, and the founding director of the university’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center.
January 13, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Our view: The Beethoven celebration
Winston-Salem’s arts organizations have joined a yearlong celebration of the 250th birthday of composer Ludwig von Beethoven, an effort called “Beethoven Rocks Winston-Salem.” The first event of the celebration, Beethoven’s Liederabend, will be held Thursday, Jan. 16 at Wake Forest. The free concert features Steven Scheschareg, a bass-baritone from Vienna, Austria, and Peter Kairoff, pianist, chair and professor from the WFU Department of Music. “There’s something in Beethoven that touches everyone,” said David Levy, a world-renowned expert and music professor at Wake Forest.
January 13, 2020
88.5 WFDD
School, interrupted part 1: Duck and cover
During the past decade, the number of gun-related incidents at school has been steadily increasing. Moreover, according to Wake Forest professor of psychology, Deborah Best, an increase in media coverage has led to increased anxiety levels. “Whether you’re there or not, seeing these things starts to challenge your sense of a just world.”
January 12, 2020
Technician
North Carolina lawmakers push NCAA reform
In Raleigh, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers introduced a bill this spring that would create an independent entity for student-athlete mistreatment claims and would also grant college athletes greater control over their own likeness while in school. The legislation attempts to compensate for a lack of player representation, according to Wake Forest sports economist Todd McFall. Since there is no union for student-athletes, internal complaints are currently the only option for claims of coach or program misconduct. “It will require schools in North Carolina to be more diligent about safety. Especially in the way athletes are treated, particularly post-injury.”
January 12, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Hanes Mall customers anxious to see what comes next after Macy’s departure
Hanes Mall anchor store, Macy’s, will close its doors this year. Sears, another Hanes Mall anchor, left the mall last year after serving Winston-Salem residents for several decades. The Sears declaration of bankruptcy by what was once America’s largest retailer “is the irony of ironies,” said Roger Beahm, executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at Wake Forest School of Business. “The company that once began as a remote-order and direct-delivery business has now all but lost the battle for survival to a retail environment that is, once again, becoming remote-order and direct-delivery.”
January 12, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
The fear that lawmakers will one day try to take citizens’ guns away has spurred some elected Republican officials in Davidson County to draft a resolution affirming the Second Amendment rights of the county’s residents and declaring that the county will never allocate resources or assist in the enforcement of a gun-control law. While the resolutions have captured the support of Second Amendment enthusiasts throughout North Carolina, they hold no official power, according to Wilson Parker, a constitutional- law professor at Wake Forest School of Law. “These are completely symbolic,” Parker said. “Counties are creatures of state law, and the federal Constitution has a supremacy clause. So any federal legislation trumps state legislation, and state legislation trumps county legislation.”
January 12, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Spotlights heats up on N.C. GOP as another red state reaches Medicaid expansion compromise
Kansas is one of several Midwest and Mountain West states that have decided to expand, along with Nebraska, Idaho and Utah, said Mark Hall, a law and public-health professor at Wake Forest. Hall released a study in April 2018 titled “Do States Regret Expanding Medicaid?” with an overall conclusion of “No.” “This move makes the (seven) Southern block of states look more and more like stubborn outliers in refusing to even consider more conservative versions of Medicaid expansion,” Hall said. Wake Forest political science professor, John Dinan went on to say that in North Carolina, “there is not an expectation of any movement on the part of the Senate toward Medicaid expansion this year. If Democrats hold the governor’s office and gain control of one chamber or possibly both, then there would be an opening in 2021 for Medicaid expansion in some form.”
January 12, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
WFU and WSSU to hold King Day event
Wake Forest and Winston-Salem State University will celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with several events. Ibram X. Kendi will deliver the keynote speech at 7 p.m. Jan. 20 in Wait Chapel. This year’s theme is “On Common Ground: Lifting As We Climb” and highlights a commitment to create a society that provides resources and representation to every individual through a constant pursuit of justice and equity.
January 11, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded Wake Forest a $3.4 million grant to develop and expand its Program for Leadership and Character, which weaves together the liberal arts and character education. The money will support student programming, faculty engagement and academic research. The grant also provides for assessments to determine the impact of programming on students. The university is exploring ways to teach students to be ethical leaders whose values, virtues and vision orient them toward the common good regardless of their field of study.
January 11, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, an associate professor of classics at Wake Forest, received the Activism Award from the Lambda Classical Caucus. Gellar-Goad was presented the award for his work lobbying the Classical Association of the Middle West and South to protect LGBTQI+ members of the discipline in connection with the association’s 2023 conference at Brigham Young University.
January 11, 2020