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Global education center
aims to unite, innovate
Building set to
open in March
BY LAUREN BERRY
STAFF WRITER
When the FedEx Global
Education Center opens in March,
campus leaders hope to make a
strong statement of the University’s
international focus.
The center, which has faced two
and a half months of delays, will
combine student services, academ
ic programs and research with the
goal of creating a more integrated
approach to international educa
tion.
Officials have pegged March 14
as the official opening date of the
building, which has a $39.6 million
budget.
Bruce Runberg, associate vice
chancellor for facilities planning
and construction, said the build
ing is open for partial occupancy.
Construction began in November
2004.
Runberg said that contractor
problems and design issues led
to the delays. “It’s going to be an
excellent building and aesthetically
we’re pushing the envelope on the
design,” he said.
The center also will mark the
first time the campus’ various
international efforts will all be in
a central location.
Kevin Hewison, director of the
Carolina Asia Center, said the move
will mark the center’s first perma
nent location.
“Moving into this wonderful
new building makes us feel a real
part of the campus and a real part
of the international focus of the
University,” Hewison said.
Daniel Lebold, director of devel
opment for global education, said
alleviating fragmentation was a
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Javier Barilla works on brickwork outside of the University's new FedEx
Global Education Center, which has faced two and a half months of delay.
major goal of creating the building.
“The primary issue is that all of
our international programs have
just been so fragmented, decentral
ized and difficult to find,” Lebold
said. “We saw that there needed to
be a critical mass of resources that
were easily identifiable on cam
pus,” he said.
Adam Versenyi, head of the cur
riculum in international and area
studies, said students will benefit
from an international center.
“We’re all going to be in the same
location now, so it will be a much
easier thing for students to find
out what’s happening in global and
international studies,” he said.
FedEx Corp. gave $5 million to
the center last May. The donation
led UNC to name the building
after the company.
The gift makes up a large portion
of the $7.5 million the University
needed to raise for the building
in addition to bond money and
funds expected to be raised by the
center’s parking garage.
Leaders said they hope having
different focuses in the same loca
tion also will allow for the sharing
of ideas and the creation of multi
lateral approaches to issues.
“We wanted to create a place
where ideas are popping up and
advanced by being in die same place,”
said Maijorie Crowell, assistant pro
vost for international programs. ‘We
hope to see the synergy of all these
different areas,” she said.
Lebold said the center will fur
ther the University’s international
reputation. “There has never been
an international anything on this
campus,” he said.
“But this is it. This is going to put
Carolina on the international map.”
Staff writer Aaron Fiedler
contributed to this report.
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
News
Program spreads technology
BY EMILY BALD
STAFF WRITER
These days, it’s hard to imagine
getting through high school with
out the Internet
However, there are at least 100
students at East Chapel Hill High
School whose families cannot
afford the service.
This number is a big concern
for Ginny Guilfoile, East Chapel
Hill’s Parent Teacher Student
Association president who started
a program to provide loaner com
puters and Internet access for stu
dents in need.
“I thought how would it be if my
kid didn’t have a computer,” Guilfbile
said. “I knew there were kids that
could not keep up with the other kids
at East without the Internet”
Guilfoile said she received two
checks over Christmas break for
$5,000 each.
These donations, in addition to
the $5,600 that had been raised
before December, gave the PTSA a
way to fund the program.
“The parents don’t have to pay
for any of it,” Guilfoile said. “The
money that we raise goes directly
to this Internet access bill.”
Ana Rider, coordinator of the
district’s home loaner program,
said access to the Internet is impor
tant for students of all grade levels
but is particularly important for
high-school students.
“When you go to high school,
all the homework and projects are
posted online on Web sites,” Rider
said.
Rider meets with students in
need of Internet access and dis
cusses concerns they might have.
“They always feel frustrated
when they don’t have a computer
at home because they have a lot of
assignments that require a com
puter,” she said.
Rider said that Internet access
is provided in the school’.; media
center until 5 p.m. on weekdays,
but that going right from a seven
hour school day to doing home
work assignments can be tiring for
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2007
students.
The district’s Information
Technology Division was able to
form a partnership with Clearwire,
a high-speed wireless Internet pro
vider.
Ray Reitz, the district’s chief
technology officer, explained that
by using Clearwire, the need for
costly land-line phones or cable is
eliminated.
“The cost of Internet access
has been the main obstacle. The
Clearwire solution is a completely
wireless solution,” Reitz said.
Dick O’Donnell, the compa
ny’s account executive, said that
because Clearwire does not require
phone lines or cable, wireless
Internet can be plugged in at stu
dents’ houses as easily as a lamp.
O’Donnell said Clearwire’s low
cost and easy setup make it a good
option for the dist;
Rider said she h;u> received very
positive feedback from the 42 stu
dents to whom the program has
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provided Internet access so far.
“One student told me the qual
ity of her work improved because
she had time in between going
to school and working on assign
ments,” Rider said. “Basically
they all talk about the same thing
how it was very hard to do their
work and how much easier it is
right now.”
Guilfoile said that although the
program has been successful this
year, the PTSA might not be able
to sustain the funds needed to
continue it unless they find a long
term source for funding.
Guilfoile said she hopes the suc
cess of this program will draw state
support in the future and plans to
write to state legislators to request
funding.
“It is a priority of the state edu
cation system to get all kids con
nected.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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