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EPA faces ‘difficult choices’ with budget cut
The agency has managed to make do with less, according to Stan Meiburg, who served 39 years at EPA, including as acting deputy administrator during the Obama administration. “I will say that as with everybody else a level budget is, in fact, a cut because of inflation and extra costs,” said Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability. “But the effort in terms of nominal numbers appears to have been to keep the agency’s budget at pretty much the same level it was in 2023.”
June 20, 2024
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A. Kimberley McAllister, director of the Center for Neuroscience and professor at the University of California at Davis, has been named vice provost for research, scholarly inquiry, and creative activity at Wake Forest University, in North Carolina.
June 20, 2024
The New York Times
On Juneteenth, freedom came with strings attached
As Corey Walker, the director of the African American Studies program at Wake Forest University, emphasizes, the idea of freedom, particularly for Black people in this country, is continuously being negotiated and contested, so “Juneteenth marks a moment in the ever-evolving and expanding project of American democracy. It is a project that is never complete. It is never fulfilled, even at the moment of Juneteenth. And it’s one that is ever evolving to this day.”
June 18, 2024
WESA-FM (Pittsburgh, PA)
Staff engagement survey reveals low morale at Pittsburgh Public Schools
Less than a third of survey respondents felt that Pittsburgh Public Schools’ mission was “reflected in the day-to-day activities of the organization.” That can be demoralizing for teachers, said politics professor Sarah Dahill-Brown. “It’s all the more demoralizing if teachers are put in the position where they know what the right thing is, but they don’t have the opportunity to do it. Or they don’t have the resources and support and time and space and staff to do it.”
June 18, 2024
Employee Benefit News
20 best entry level jobs of 2024
“The number one thing to look for in early career roles is whether or not a job offers career and professional development opportunities,” said Mercy Eyadiel, associate vice president and chief corporate engagement officer. “If you see things like college tuition benefits, training and development or mentorship programs, this is a great sign that this organization is committed to your professional growth and success.”
June 18, 2024
Bloomberg Law
Opioids lawyers offer investors piece of $100 million-plus win
A law firm set to earn more than $100 million for its work on opioids cases is packaging its fees and selling it to investors as a security. “It’s getting more systematic, the sophistication level is rising and it’s bringing in new actors,” said law professor Samir Parikh, who studies mass torts financing. “Whether it’s good or bad is hard to say. What you could argue is it’s weaponizing mass tort litigation that must be terrifying to defendants.”
June 17, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
NC legislature clears controversial campaign-finance bill
“Under the provision in the law being considered, these 527 groups could make donations to the North Carolina Republican party or North Carolina Democratic Party, which can in turn use these funds to benefit Republican and Democratic candidates for governor or other state offices,” said politics professor John Dinan.
June 12, 2024
Miami Herald
This year’s Pride Month is a time for optimism, not despair | Opinion
Law professor Marie-Amélie George writes: “For the LGBTQ+ community and allies, June is a month of joy and celebration, marked by lively Pride parades that draw millions of supporters. This year, however, a legislative onslaught has tempered the revelry. In the first six months of 2024, state legislators across the country have introduced 515 bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community. The situation is so dire that the Human Rights Campaign has declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans.”
June 10, 2024
Yahoo Life
6 books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth
Dean of the School of Divinity, Professor of the Humanities, and Director of the Program in African American Studies Corey D. B. Walker shares six books that can help people better understand the history and meaning of the observance.
June 9, 2024
Winston-Salem Journal
Proposed NC campaign funding law changes draw Democrats’ ire
“Under the provision in the law being considered, these 527 groups could make donations to the North Carolina Republican party or North Carolina Democratic Party, which can in turn use these funds to benefit Republican and Democratic candidates for governor or other state offices,” said politics professor John Dinan. “There is a lot of benefit in allowing legislators and the public to have adequate time to study and understand the changes.”
June 9, 2024
The Washington Post
Judge Aileen Cannon tosses another curveball in the Trump cases
As politics professor Katy Harriger, an expert on special counsels, points out, “As has been made clear in other areas, commitment to earlier precedent for precedent’s sake is not an animating value of this Court. The current majority on the Roberts Court is generally hostile to appointment arrangements widely used in the modern administrative state that limit presidential control over executive actors. So even though the law appears to be well settled in this area, there is uncertainty as to whether this Court will think a special counsel meets the requirements for an ‘inferior officer.’”
June 8, 2024
Triad Business Journal
Wake Forest rises to top for employee pay among NC universities
Wake Forest University leads the way for non-instructional staff pay among colleges and universities in North Carolina and also rises close to the top in both instructional staff and overall staff salaries, according to a Business Journals analysis of fiscal year 2023 data for public and private universities.
June 6, 2024