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The Week Ahead: College freshmen to start moving in
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Published: August 18, 2008
Updated: 08/18/2008 01:50 am
Need a sign that summer's over?
Here's one: Students will head back to local college campuses this week. Freshmen will start moving into their dorm rooms at Winston-Salem State University at 7 a.m. today. About 1,200 freshmen are expected to enroll, the largest freshman class in WSSU history. The Wake Forest University Class of 2012 will start moving in at 8 a.m. Thursday. New students at Salem College will move in Saturday. Classes at all three colleges begin next week.
Students at the newly renamed UNC School of the Arts will return to campus in September.
Grand opening for new Social Security office
The local branch of the Social Security Administration will hold the official grand opening/ribbon cutting of its new office at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The office, at 1370 Lockland Ave., replaces the administration's office on University Parkway. That office, Social Security's home since 1999, had about 11,000 square feet of space. The new office has about 16,000 square feet.
For more information, call the office at 722-2268.
Workshop for teachers
Na'im Akbar, a psychologist and scholar, will lead a free daylong workshop Tuesday aimed at helping teachers better understand the educational needs of at-risk black children.
The workshop will be held at Carter G. Woodson School, 437 Goldfloss St.
Akbar, a professor of psychology at Florida State University, has developed a way of teaching children that incorporates history and culture. The workshop is part of Project Teaching Excellence in American Civic History, a statewide project aimed at helping teachers better teach history.
The workshop, which is also open to parents, will begin at 9 a.m. and registration is required. For more information, call 577-3054.
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"It is difficult to leave UT Southwestern, which has been such a major part of our lives, but this simply was an incredible opportunity that I could not refuse. We were able to achieve success in the integrating of the academic and clinical sides at UT Southwestern while playing a larger role in the local community. I'm absolutely convinced that the same balance of excellence in research, education and medical care is achievable here. We can become one of the preeminent academic medical centers in the country, and the employer of choice in the community."
-- John McConnell, new chief executive officer of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, on why he left the University of Texas Southwestern for Baptist.
Look both ways when you cross
The total number of automobile and train-related accidents, injuries and deaths at railroad crossings in North Carolina, from the past four years:
Year - Total incidents - Resulting injuries - Resulting deaths
2007 - 68 - 20 - 5
2006 - 75 - 23 - 8
2005 - 67 - 38 - 6
2004 - 75 - 26 - 12
Source: Federal Railroad Administration
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