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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education
Wake Forest supporting first-generation students via Magnolia Scholars program
Wake Forest established the Magnolia Scholars program to create an opportunity for first-generation students to receive financial aid, mentorship and college transition assistance. The program chooses students from various interdisciplinary fields and diverse geographical locations. The first cohort of the Magnolia Scholars program was launched in 2009. In 2018, an anonymous donor gifted the Magnolia Scholars program $10 million.
January 15, 2020
E&E News
World Bank coal case a testing ground for climate liability
The Jam dispute proceeds as international financial institutions are taking a closer look at the costs of climate change. Those entities could face similar challenges in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling last year, but it will take some time for the judiciary to define the boundaries of the justices’ decision, said John Knox, a law professor at Wake Forest. “It’s going to be difficult to see exactly what the parameters or the opportunities for successful suits are going to be until those cases start to work their way through the courts.”
January 15, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
Photos: Martin Luther King Day celebrations over the years in Winston-Salem
Wake Forest and its past events were featured in the Winston-Salem Journal review of photos of Martin Luther King Day celebrations over the years. Photos from author and Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson’s keynote speech at WFU’s 2018 event and a photo of the WFU Gospel Choir performing at the 2014 joint celebration with Winston-Salem State University, are featured in the piece.
January 15, 2020
Winston-Salem Journal
N.C. House Democrat submits Medicaid expansion bill that doesn’t require federal funding match
In an effort to pass legislation that extends Medicaid coverage to some North Carolinians, Rep. Billy Richardson introduced HB 1032, which would not require a 90% federal match for additional administrative costs associated with expansion. “A partial Medicaid expansion of this sort … would have likely proved attractive to some legislative Republicans,” said John Dinan, a political science professor at Wake Forest. “When Utah tried to do a partial expansion of this sort last summer, (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) officials ruled that this was not allowed, and said that states had to do a full expansion to qualify for the 90% federal reimbursement rate. Otherwise, states only get reimbursed at the regular reimbursement rate, which in North Carolina’s case is around 67%.”
January 15, 2020
91.5 WUNC
A closer look at the wood pellet industry
Wake Forest professor of journalism and MongaBay reporter Justin Catanoso collaborated with a team of reporters to co-author a three-part series exploring the wood pellet industry in eastern North Carolina. The series was supported by a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and published in The News & Observer. In 2009, the European Union declared wood pellets a “carbon-neutral choice,” and in 2018 the EPA followed suit. Yet pellets are less efficient than fossil fuels. To make the same amount of energy, wood pellets release more carbon than both coal and natural gas. Meanwhile, the export of pellets is revitalizing North Carolina’s struggling timber industry.
January 14, 2020
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