University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

sociology professor at Wake Forest University has concluded that college entrance exams such as the SAT and ACT put minority and low income students with significant disadvantages that result in a lack of diversity in four year colleges. In some research done by Soares on UNC- Chapel Hill, North Carolinas flagship university he states that, “No. UNC-Chapel Hill 's student population has the same economic composition of an elite private college. At UNC-Chapel Hill, 72 percent of undergraduates…

Cindy Elmore is an associate professor in the Department of Communication. She came to ECU in 2003 as an Assistant Professor after completing her PhD at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has previously earned her BS in Communication Arts from James Madison University and her MA in Mass Communication Research from the University of Leicester in the UK. In 2009, she was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Elmore has received many accolades, including being…

years ago. I firmly believe the addiction to those funds provides a very difficult situation for the NCAA to cut them off. In 1993, over 20 years ago, North Carolina signed one of the initial apparel contracts in the NCAA. According to Stein (2004), North Carolina “signed a five-year deal with Nike worth an estimated $11 million to the University, and Nike…

My second short-term goal is to get an internship. My ideal internship would be located in a hospital setting working predominately with adolescents. In my undergraduate career I was exposed to a hospital clinic belonging to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. It exposed me to the nitty gritty of working in the profession. Not only that but it showed me how the counselors and doctors worked together to help the patients that passed through. I remember asking several of the counselors…

My career goal is to become a medical professional with lots of hands-on experience in the hospital as well as a research setting. Diabetes is the killer disease that awakened my interest to the medical field. My early exposure to this field came from my grandfather, who had been suffering from diabetes for the past 20 years. I watched him suffer from various neurological pains and wound healing difficulties on his feet. As I started to read more about the science and facts on diabetes, I…

(Capps 1). Randy Capps got his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas, and he is the Director of Research for U.S. Programs at the Migration Policy Institute. Citizen children tend to experience isolation after their undocumented parents are deported which leads to stress and mental health issues. Sara Satinsky specializes in Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which was ranked #30 among national universities. She is the Project Director at Human Impact…

Gaillard, Frye. The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina 3rd ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. This mongraph is helpful because it discusses the battle of integration in Charlotte’s history. Gaillard begins her analysis in the 1950s when Charlotte chose to begin voluntary desegregation of its schools in 1957. However, like most “New South” cities, over the next decade it made extremely slow progression towards full…

practice of affirmative action has often been misunderstood in a way that opponents of it have the idea that those who benefit from it are unqualified to gain admittance to their respective college/university. In reality, it is a just way to make sure the…

APA Annotated Bibliography: Rhetorical Analysis Andrews, W.L. (2004). North American Slave Narratives: An Introduction to the Slave Narrative. Documenting the American South. Retrieved from http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html In the North American Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews, he explains the importance of former slave narratives and how they contribute to American history. He addresses the importance of slave narratives and how they relate to racism in the United States. He…

As an immigrant, I’ve heard the history of South Africa recounted countless times. While I can report the events of the apartheid era and describe Nelson Mandela’s role in the journey to reconciliation, the history textbooks I’ve read are purely factual, lacking emotion and true human sentiment. I’ve always wondered how South Africans felt amidst these tensions and how day-to-day interactions were affected by such intense political turmoil; that’s when my mom introduced me to Fiela’s Child, a…