My bad.

I wrote this story last week about the UNC system's decision to eliminate 60 low-performing degree programs across the state.

I didn't list them all. That's a lot of real estate in a newspaper.

Thankfully, a few readers pointed me to the existence of something called the Internet, a newfangled gizmo that is apparently a useful way to disseminate information.

So here goes:

There's a pdf attached to this blog post. Click it open and you'll find the entire list of program cuts. The list starts on page 5.

Documents:

My bad.

I wrote this story last week about the UNC system's decision to eliminate 60 low-performing degree programs across the state.

I didn't list them all. That's a lot of real estate in a newspaper.

Thankfully, a few readers pointed me to the existence of something called the Internet, a newfangled gizmo that is apparently a useful way to disseminate information.

So here goes:

There's a pdf attached to this blog post. Click it open and you'll find the entire list of program cuts. The list starts on page 5.

Documents:

With another win over Wake Forest on Sunday, N.C. State’s Sidney Lowe evened his record for the season at 2-2 against the ACC’s first-year coaches.

Staff writer Ken Tysiac held a lively online chat at noon today. If you missed it, here's a replay of the comments.
 

A television show produced by N.C. State University has won a regional Emmy Award.

The team that produced "In the Garden with Bryce Lane" received the award over the weekend at the 25th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards.

The show is produced by NCSU's Communication Services department.  Bryce Lane, host and instructor in N.C. State’s Horticultural Science Department, brings more than 28 years of teaching experience to television.

The production team includes videographer/editor Simone Keith, producer Sonya Williams Harris and graphic artist John Vanaman. The show airs Saturdays at noon on UNC-TV.

Williams Harris said In the Garden won the award for a show about gardening with children. The episode, from the show’s seventh season, features Lane’s grandchildren working in his home garden, as well as students from Raleigh’s Ravenscroft School and 4-H horticulture specialist Liz Driscoll demonstrating fun gardening activities for children.

In the Garden, beginning its ninth season this year, is the only show of its kind offered in North Carolina. The show is both a television series and a horticulture distance education course. Viewers can register for the course to earn college credit.

updated: 6:10 p.m.

CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina forward John Henson broke down N.C. State on Saturday – altering most Wolfpack shots attempted in the lane. Teammate Harrison Barnes, meanwhile, broke through – playing his most consistent gave of the season for a career-high 25 points.

Together, they led a 84-64 dismantling at the Smith Center that marked UNC’s ninth straight win in the rivalry series, and that State coach Sidney Lowe admitted was embarrassing.

The Wolfpack (12-8, 2-4 ACC), which trailed by double figures within the first three minutes, has now lost five of their last six games; the Tar Heels (15-5, 5-1) have won eight of their last nine.

Got a spare buck this weekend?

Here's an idea: Bring it to the UNC/N.C. State men's basketball game Saturday at the Smith Center and donate it to a good cause.

The UNC Dance Marathon, a student organization that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years for the UNC Children's Hospital, is hitting up Tar Heel fans this weekend.

Organizers hope each fan will contribute one dollar.

The game's at 2 p.m.

Though Carolina's opponent is NCSU, the Dance Marathon is competing with Duke and its Crazies Who Care, a collection of Duke students that raises money for the Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center and the Emily Krzyzewski Center.

The Duke student group will be raising money Saturday, Feb. 5 when Duke hosts NCSU.

At UNC, the basketball team is behind the effort.

Check out the video below:

 UNC Chapel Hill does not anticipate a major academic restructuring – a la N.C. State University – to deal with ongoing budget cuts.

"We’re going to continually make changes," Robert Winston, chairman of the UNC-CH Board of Trustees, said in a recent interview. "There will be some restructuring here and there. But nothing that will shock people and blow them away."

Last week, NCSU Chancellor Randy Woodson announced a sweeping plan to eliminate some degree programs and merge departments and, potentially, entire schools.

The announcement was an indication that after four years of budget cuts, that campus could no longer get through the annual budget-cutting exercise by nipping around the periphery.

Woodson wants to rethink the entire university structure instead of gradually slicing away at every department’s budget, as it and other public universities have done for the last several years. At NCSU, budget cuts have already led to the elimination of jobs, class sections and other academic resources.

In Chapel Hill, UNC-CH's strategy is to assume cuts are coming and prepare for them as early as possible. To that end, Provost Bruce Carney pushed deans last October to start planning for cuts of 5 and 10 percent for next year, which for UNC-CH would be $26 and $52 million, respectively.

Normally, that wouldn't take place until March or April, Carney told trustees Wednesday afternoon. UNC-CH officials accelerated the exercise to allow more time to prepare for the cuts.

And UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp has already announced a five percent permanent budget cut effective July 1. That gives deans and department heads a half year to plan for the reductions.

"We’ll try to shield teaching and research and protect our ability to provide need-based financial aid," Thorp wrote in an e-mail to faculty and staff. "Admittedly, however, that will be harder to do moving forward because of the cumulative effects of the cuts we’ve taken so far."

Keep in mind: These cuts are for the next budget year. On top of that, universities have been asked to return to the state 3.5 percent of their spending for the current year, which, of course, is already half over. They must do so by March 1.

Read more about this in Thursday's News & Observer.

CLEMSON, S.C. - This time, N.C. State wasted a big lead and couldn’t save itself.

Two days after losing a 17-point lead but escaping with a victory over Miami, the Wolfpack couldn’t hold a 19-point lead at Clemson, losing 60-50 to the Tigers Tuesday night in Littlejohn Coliseum.

What had started so well for the Wolfpack turned into a late meltdown as the Tigers scored 16 straight points in the closing minutes to hand N.C. State a potentially devastating loss.

It was the biggest Clemson comeback at home against an ACC opponent.

Big changes are coming at N.C. State.

Chancellor Randy Woodson announced plans today for a major reorganization aimed at rooting out underperforming or non-critical departments, programs and units.

It's a budget-cutting measure intended to streamline the university and mirrors a similar initiative soon to get underway on the UNC system level.

Jay Price has today's story here.

And here's a video and text copy of Woodson's announcement.