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Winston-Salem Journal
‘Clean slate.’ UAW strike could push more EV investment south
“The unions have cited record auto industry profits as justification for their demands of higher wages, worker flexibility and improved benefits,” said economics professor Mark Curtis, whose research includes the economic impact of the growing clean-energy industry, particularly for workers. “It is certainly true that profits (for Ford, General Motors and Stellantis) are high, but making these demands now is risky given that automakers appear to me more willing than ever to relocate production to new regions like the Southeast.”
October 4, 2023
Yes! Weekly
RiverRun scares up a pair of classic Halloween treats at Marketplace Cinemas
This Halloween season, the RiverRun International Film Festival’s ongoing “RiverRun Retro” screening series will present King Kong (1933), celebrating its 90th anniversary. “King Kong endures for many reasons,” explained Woody Hood, professor and director of Wake Forest’s film studies program. “The original King Kong and its stop-motion animation was groundbreaking for the time.…Kong is a complex and sympathetic character. He is a powerful and majestic creature, but he is also vulnerable and misunderstood. We fear him. We love him. We mourn him in the end.
October 4, 2023
Fast Company
How a popular New Deal jobs program inspired Biden’s Climate Corps
Biden’s new American Climate Corp program touts skills building, giving exposure to hands-on, vocational training that’s often lacking in general education. “It’s good for government and good for business. Many of the CCC families think the new corps will be a worthwhile endeavor. The Civilian Conservation Corps is a really sweet story and shows how government can take very difficult situations and find ways to use them to help improve people’s lives. And I think that’s exactly the objective here,” said Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest’s Sabin Center.
October 3, 2023
North Carolina Construction News
State budget includes millions for infrastructure improvements in Winston Salem
“Wake Forest is proud to be a partner in these important commitments to the collective well-being of our community and to be one of the many reasons people come to visit and fall in love with Winston-Salem,” said President Susan R. Wente.
October 3, 2023
Greensboro News & Record
Krispy Kreme may put stake in Insomnia Cookies up for sale
The access to home-delivery expertise may prove to be more pivotal to Krispy Kreme than the Insomnia revenue source, said marketing professor Roger Beahm. “Learning from and leveraging this key reason-for-being in Insomnia Cookies’ success makes a lot of sense given where the retail food industry is headed today.”
October 3, 2023
WXII-TV (Winston Salem, NC)
What happens next following House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ousting?
Politics professor John Dinan weighs in on this historic removal, and McCarthy’s temporary replacement. “That’s a big deal to have a speaker of the House removed in the middle of the term. People have used the term ‘chaos’ to describe today and the aftermath of today, and chaos is an apt description. In a way, Speaker McCarthy, by working with members across the aisle to allow the government to continue operating and not shut down, basically sealed his fate.”
October 3, 2023
The New York Times
The Americans most threatened by eviction: Young children
About a quarter of Black babies and toddlers in rental households face the threat of eviction in a typical year, a new study says, and all children are disproportionately at risk. “We all want to feel that when we go home, we feel safe, we feel comforted, there are positive things happening,” said Sherri Lawson Clark, a cultural anthropologist at Wake Forest who studies housing instability among poor families. “If you get to a place where you can build that, it will create that generational stability.”
October 2, 2023
Bustle
The worst TV teachers of the 21st Century
Much has been written about the negative portrayals of TV teachers, with communication professor Mary M. Dalton telling The Washington Post that 21st-century discussions about education have led to fictional educators who are “burned out, incompetent, unfulfilled, immature, irresponsible, and worse.”
October 2, 2023
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Three African American scholars appointed to Dean positions at universities
Corey D. B. Walker has been named dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Walker, who is a professor of the humanities at the university, has served as interim dean for the school since January. Before joining the faculty at Wake Forest in 2020, he was dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in Richmond.
October 2, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Developer spends nearly $11 million to buy land for 500-plus Forsyth subdivision
A combined 310 acres in Forsyth County have been bought for $10.95 million by a High Point residential real-estate developer with plans for a more than 500-home subdivision in the Tanglewood Park area near Clemmons. Engineering professor Courtney Di Vittorio, who specializes in water management, agreed that flood projections are obsolete. “It’s kind of silly to me that we’re not communicating the risks. We need to move past where you’re considered fine on one side of the (floodplain) line and not on the other.”
October 2, 2023
Chicago Tribune Opinion
US should change course in West Africa to avert loss of life
After a brief hiatus following the coup there in late July, the United States has resumed military operations in Niger. Drones and manned aircraft are back at work. U.S. defense officials and training will resume at some point soon as well. None of this is good news. Thirty years ago, 18 U.S. soldiers died and were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu in what’s known as the Black Hawk Down incident, writes politics and international affairs professor Will Walldorf.
October 1, 2023
Winston-Salem Journal
Paul McCartney’s live concert in Winston-Salem in 2022 taught the city a thing or two about the need for more parking in the area near the fairgrounds, Joel Coliseum and the stadium where Wake Forest University teams play football, Mayor Allen Joines said Friday. Joines and N.C. Rep. Donny Lambeth jointly announced this week that an appropriation of $35 million in the recently-approved state budget will pay for improvements in the area. Wake Forest President Susan R. Wente said the university is “proud to be a partner in these important commitments to the collective well-being of our community, and to be one of the many reasons people come to visit and fall in love with Winston-Salem.”
October 1, 2023