A proposal to place more than 125 security cameras in San Francisco s Castro neighborhood died June 7 in the face of significant community opposition.
In a unanimous voice vote, the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District Board of Directors decided not to continue discussion of the proposal. The vote came just after the results of a survey were announced at the meeting purporting to show majority support for cameras, but the poll was criticized by some for its leading questions. We don t have any commitment for long-term costs, so that s one reason I d say kill the program here tonight, said CBD Treasurer Crispin Hollings, a gay man and longtime community leader. Another thing is . we are an unelected body that would be imposing a system on this neighborhood outside what the CBD ought to be doing. There s a lot of good work that the CBD can do without being distracted by this.
HIGH POINT, N.C., April 6, 2021 –Dr. Nido Qubein, High Point University president, has been re-elected to the position of treasurer of the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) Board of Directors. The election took place at the organization’s annual meeting held virtually March 30. President Qubein has served as treasurer since 2019 and previously served in an at-large position.
“It is an honor to continue to serve as treasurer for the North Carolina Independent College and Universities Board of Directors,” said Dr. Qubein. “NCICU is blessed to have such wonderful colleges and universities among its membership.”
NCICU is the statewide office for North Carolina’s 36 private, nonprofit colleges and universities. Its board is made up of the presidents of those institutions.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. The coronavirus pandemic has challenged colleges big and small across the country. Many students haven’t been on campus in a year, schools have scrambled to move classes online, and revenue from things like conferences dried up overnight.
In a recent newspaper op-ed, Guilford College interim President Jim Hood put it this way: “To borrow and bend the opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: Happy colleges are all alike, unhappy colleges are unhappy in their own ways.”
Along with the challenges of moving students to online classes and dealing with coronavirus cases in students who stayed on campus, this small Quaker school near Greensboro is facing some big financial struggles.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools recently welcomed middle and high school students, pictured, back for in-person classes. The rate of applications for financial aid for college students has fallen both nationally and in North Carolina.
Getting first-generation and low-income students to apply for college is always a challenge, according to Hope Williams, president of North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities. But she says the pandemic has only exacerbated the issue.
“The challenge in higher education is reaching students and families who are our lower-income and first-generation college students,” Williams said.
Not only are application rates for first-generation and low-income students down, but so are applications for FAFSA, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.