Students who are pushing for more rental options could be misled by companies claiming to provide the best choice. Chegg, a textbook rental company that caters to multiple universities, recently partnered with Borders to widen its rental market and target many college students. Tina Couch, spokeswoman for Chegg, called the company “the Netflix of textbook rentals.”
The National Cancer Institute recently awarded a $12 million partnership grant to UNC-CH and N.C. Central University. The grant is one of three types of partnerships established by NCI to reduce cancer health disparities in minorities.
As many UNC-system schools suffer from a lack of funding, Duke University approved plans to build a new facility for its medical school.
Universities nationwide might be emphasizing diverse viewpoints among students, but a new study found that they might not be pushing students to be tolerant of other perspectives. The Association of American Colleges and Universities survey shows that 97 percent of university staff and 93 percent of students agreed that an important goal of college education should be to prepare students to value others’ views.
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