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Winston-Salem Journal
Legal clinic helps eligible people get second chance
Several Wake Forest law students, working in the school’s expungement clinic, visited Samaritan Ministries recently to assist Local clients in need. The students, in between sweating exams, beefing up resumes and scrounging paying jobs, showed up to help people erase petty convictions from their permanent records — a population not accustomed to getting a break from the legal system. “On a good day, we might screen 20 or 25 people,” said WFU law student Shelby Hansen. “A slow day, maybe five or 10.”
November 30, 2019
Q-Notes
News briefs: Attorney receives journal award
Marie-Amélie George, an assistant professor at Wake Forest School of Law, has received The Michael Cunningham Prize for her article entitled “Bureaucratic Agency: Administering the Transformation of LGBT Rights” that appeared in the Yale Law and Policy Review. The award was given in recognition of the best sexual orientation and gender identity law review articles of 2018 by The Dukeminier Awards Journal at the University of California, Los Angeles.
November 29, 2019
Spectrum News
Wake Forest is being recognized by an initiative to increase student voter participation. WFU received the Silver Seal for Excellence in Student Voter Engagement at the ALL IN Challenge Awards Ceremony. Between the 2014 to 2018 midterm elections, student voter turnout increased from about 20 percent to more than 32 percent. Wake Forest is also celebrating being selected to partner with AmeriCorps VISTA to recruit and encourage participation in national service opportunities.
November 29, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Navigating Thanksgiving gatherings around politics
Sam Gladding, professor of counseling at Wake Forest, gave advice to families gathering for the holidays during a time when politics and polarization can creep into our own homes. Gladding suggests setting ground rules for conversation and making those rules known up front. “When people know the ground rules, they are much better mannered and experiences turn out much better than if it’s kind of a free for all,” Gladding said. “Just like in athletic events or artistic expression, some rules can guide us to be better than we are.”
November 28, 2019
Business Because
Big data jobs to consulting: Employers value experiential learning at business school
Whether it’s jobs in big data or consulting, what do employers look for when they hire business school candidates? According to the Graduate Management Admission Council’s Corporate Recruiters Survey, skills like problem solving and the ability to work with others are the most in-demand. These kinds of skills—along with communication and leadership—need to be honed outside the classroom, through practical, experiential learning experiences. That’s the idea behind the MS in Management (MSM) and MS in Business Analytics (MSBA) programs at Wake Forest School of Business , where students work on real-life consulting projects for real firms.
November 27, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Shorter shopping season has retailers offering deals — well before Black Friday
Early sales have become a staple of the holiday shopping season. Each year, retailers offer deals several days before Black Friday. However, with this year’s shorter holiday season, some retailers rolled out deals the day after Halloween. “There was a need to try to push some of the sales early and shoppers responded to that,” said Roger Beahm, executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at Wake Forest.
November 27, 2019
Associated Press
Stalemate still on as N Carolina legislature ends this year
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and his Republican rivals fought to a draw as the North Carolina legislature adjourned its longest annual session in nearly 20 years this month, still with no conventional state budget in place and many favored GOP items blocked. It may take the November 2020 elections to break the logjam in the closely divided, fast-growing state, which while leaning Republican this decade has shown some recent signs of toggling to the left. “I don’t see any clear winners or losers from the 2019 legislative session,” Wake Forest political science professor John Dinan said. “Both sides appear prepared to take their case to voters in the 2020 elections.”
November 26, 2019
E&E News
‘Highly unusual’ move puts Region 9 chief’s office in LA
Despite alarms raised by EPA’s watchdog office and legal staff, Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson switched a top political appointee’s workplace from San Francisco to Los Angeles, moving him closer to home. Stan Meiburg, who served as the EPA’s acting deputy administrator during the Obama administration’s later years and currently serves as the director of graduate programs in sustainability at Wake Forest, told E&E News it’s common for regional administrators to have difficulty relocating, especially to high-cost cities.
November 26, 2019
Pulitzer Center
The Indigenous struggle for land recognition: Demarcação Já
Wake Forest junior, Rafael Alves de Lima, published an article on Indigenous population relations in Brazil, based on research he completed in the country earlier this year. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting awarded a fellowship to Lima, funding his research and reporting.
November 25, 2019
The New York Times
Scientists created fake rhino horn. But should we use it
In the hopes of driving down the value of rhino horn and reducing poaching even more, scientists have created a convincing artificial rhino horn made from horsehair. A number of experts pushed back, however, saying that fake rhino horn risks could stimulate demand for real horn, and that it would complicate policing. Frederick Chen, an economist at Wake Forest, said that there is more than one way to flood a market, however. “Conservation groups tend to clump different strategies under one roof and have a knee-jerk reaction that they have to reject them all,” he said. “But the dangers they point out don’t apply to all strategies.”
November 25, 2019
Aljazeera
Peter Siavelis, associate professor of political science at Wake Forest, spoke with Aljazeera about political unrest in Bolivia. “Both sides are irritating the divisions that currently exist. First of all, President Áñez has come to power really at a moment when Bolivia needs reconciliation, negotiation and work between the two sides. But what she’s done is taken a series of symbolic actions which have irritated the rift, made divisions deeper, and made people hard and fast into their positions.”
November 24, 2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Launch of Truist likely to be deliberate with Carolinas branch conversions going last
The banks have not unveiled the branding, signage, font type and colors for Truist, saying they will be disclosed closer to closing. “Once the new company is official, the transition to new brand elements — logo, signage, letterhead, collateral materials, etc. — should be rapid enough to capitalize on the excitement and newsworthiness of the now-approved merger, yet deliberate enough to allow consumers time to acclimate comfortably to the new brand name,” said Roger Beahm, executive director of the Center for Retail Innovation at the Wake Forest School of Business.
November 23, 2019