☀️ In Today’s Edition
1. Michelin Goes South
2. Quaker Notes
3. Lawmakers Target Duke’s China Program
4. Around Our Network
5. What We’re Reading
6. Our Recent Stories
In collaboration with Travel South USA, Michelin recently announced it will publish a Michelin Guide American South that includes North Carolina.
While the guide is Michelin’s first regional guide in North America, the company has previously partnered with tourism boards to produce guides for places like Florida, Texas, and Atlanta.
The Food Section‘s Hanna Raskin talked to longtime Michelin insider Michael Ian Fanning about what it might mean for the food scene here. Fanning worked for Michelin for 16 years but is now retired and living in Charlotte.
Rating Michelin’s Influence
Michelin recently announced it will soon publish a new guide for the American South, its first regional guide in North America.
“The thing what’s sometimes misunderstood about Michelin is some people think to be in the guide, you’ve got to have fine linen, great cutlery, service that is unparalleled,” said Fanning. “And the truth is, what’s on the plate is what really concerns Michelin.”
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Quaker Notes
Amid its second financial crisis in five years, Guilford College is on the verge of losing accreditation unless it can balance its books by June 30. It’s also on its fifth leader in as many years, and lost a provost and chief financial officer this year.
Even if the Quaker school with 1,200 students survives in the short term, Matt Hartman reports that there are bigger debates about its longterm prospects. One plan calls for blowing up the higher education administrative model, replacing most of the school’s hierarchy with a Quaker-style deliberative council. The other calls for selling land, cutting costs, and investing in majors like business that are popular with students.
Guilford College Debates How ‘Quakerly’ It Should Be
Amid its second financial crisis in five years, Guilford College faculty hatched a radical plan to run the school by Quaker-inspired councils. Some alumni say the college needs to make tough business decisions first.
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Duke It Out
The chairmen of two U.S. House of Representatives committees sent a letter to Duke University this week urging the school to end its partnership with Wuhan University in Kunshan, China.
Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan, the chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan, the chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee, wrote that Duke Kunshan University is directly “advancing China’s military and technological ambitions at the expense of the American taxpayer.”
The letter also cited a first-person account we published earlier this year from a Duke student who said she and other students who took a free trip to China felt pressured to speak with Chinese media and say positive things about the country.
U.S. Lawmakers Urge Duke to End Partnership With Wuhan University
Two House committee chairmen say Duke’s partner school is a ‘direct extension of the Chinese military and intelligence apparatus.’
“Duke is in receipt of Rep. Moolenaar and Rep. Walberg’s letter,” a university spokesperson said Thursday. “Duke respects Congress’s important oversight role and will work to further educate Congress about Duke’s global education mission.”
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Around Our Network
Elizabeth City State University has a new chancellor. The UNC System Board of Governors unanimously approved S. Keith Hargrove, a long-time academic who has worked at several historically Black colleges and universities, on Thursday.
In attempt to address the statewide child care crisis, Cape Fear Valley Health and the Cumberland County government are expanding their child care services, CityView reports.
A three-judge panel seems poised to strike down a Reconstruction-era law that authorizes N.C. district attorneys to charge convicted felons with a crime if they mistakenly vote before their voting rights are restored.
Homelessness in Wake County is up 27 percent compared to last year, though much of that may be due to improved methodology, INDY reports.
What We’re Reading
On Porpoise: Wildlife officials are offering a $20,000 reward for information about the decapitation of a dolphin on Lea-Hutaff Island, per The Guardian: “This animal was intentionally decapitated, a violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.”
Bet the Farm: After the Trump administrations recent cuts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency has only one staffer left to provide guidance on disaster loans to farmers in 23 counties affected by Hurricane Helene, according to N.C. Newsline.
Not Dead Yet: WBTV reports that a bill that would restrict public access to autopsy reports is under consideration in the General Assembly for the third time in five years.
Our Recent Stories
U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards Accused of Hitting Man At Rotary Event
The rumor mill has been churning over allegations Edwards struck an audience member at the “Peace in Action” conference.
Jefferson Griffin Lost. The Reputation of State Courts Might Be the Biggest Loser.
The six-month challenge did more than rekindle long-simmering partisan debates over election administration. It also raised questions about the state’s judiciary.
Judge Orders Columbus County Sheriff to Release Additional Records
The judge directed the county to grant access to public records about former sheriff Jody Greene.
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