Read ’em and weep. Could you get into NC State today? Don’t short yourself too much…the SAT was recalibrated a more than a decade ago where you should add approximately 100 points to scores achieved before the change. Link
Campus News
Thank You, Clemson
What was it about NC State’s game with Clemson last week that was so eye-opening to Wolfpackers? First, Brett Jensen went from being a below-average hack to a superstar in this awesome piece about NC State’s Athletics Administration. (SFN feels like that piece got lost in the shuffle over the weekend so we encourage you […]
SFN Impact Update
Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we thought that […]
Tailgating Policy, Part I
SFN will have a lot more to say on this quickly boiling topic later. For now, I will direct you to this excellent, thorough piece from our blogging friends at RAWFS. In short, I think this is the worst kind of administrative nonsense – a solution in search of a problem. I’ve been going to […]
Collegetowns & The Grumble Test
We’ve got a lot of authors traveling today, so we thought that we would look back on what was hitting the blog exactly one year ago about right now. Found it pretty interesting. First, we across this entry based on a television show about “Collegetowns”. Worth a read. Additionally…check out this entry about “The Grumble […]
SFN: What A Year (thusfar)!!!
Excerpt: “In the first seven months of the year, SFN has attracted almost 150,000 different visitors from around the world, generating just under 8 million hits and 2.5 million different page views of unique SFN material. We couldn’t be more proud of the breadth and depth of our growing reach considering that we are just […]
State “geeks take second world title”
A quick congratulations to the NC State team that won the World Title “earlier this month in a prestigious contest known as the IEEE Computer Society International Design Competition. It was the first time a school had won the $20,000 award twice.” Link to N&O article here. Fantastic work guys/gals/whomever!! We can only wonder how […]
Another UNC-CH Grad Appointed Chair
Another in the long list of Chairpersons of the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors has been announced. The Board of Governors is the policy-making body that oversees the state of North Carolina’s 16-campus public university system. Proclaiming a new Chair at the Board is effectively synonymous with announcing that another UNC-Chapel Hill […]
Chancellor’s Residence Moving to Centennial Campus
Chancellor’s house will express itself — in Italian For most of us, our house is our home. But at roughly $3.5 million and 12,300 square feet, the new chancellor’s house at N.C. State University will be a statement.
Record # Seek Admission to State
From Triangle Business Journal and NC State press releases. “More students than ever before have applied to be freshmen at North Carolina State University. NCSU received 15,236 applications seeking freshman admission this fall. The record number of applicants represents a 10.7 percent increase over the 13,762 students who applied for admission at NCSU a year […]
