Dan E. Way

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Dan E. Way

Dan E. Way joined the staff of Carolina Journal in June 2012 after freelancing for CJ for nearly a year.

Dan has extensive experience in daily journalism, editing the Chapel Hill Herald from 2009-11, serving as metro editor at the Durham Herald-Sun from 2005-08, and working at various senior editing and management positions at newspapers in Montgomery, Ala., Columbus, Miss., Greenville, Miss., Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Williamsport, Pa., and Renovo, Pa.

He was founding president of the Mississippi Center for Freedom of Information and former president of the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors.

His bachelor's degree in journalism and media studies is from Lock Haven University in Lock Haven, Pa., also completing a supporting studies program in Spanish at Lock Haven. He is a native of Williamsport, Pa. He lives in Hillsborough with his three sons.

Articles by Dan E. Way

Citing Genetics and Power of Rock Music, Physicist Says Diversity Crossbreeds Excellence

Feb 27, 2017 · · 8 Comments on Citing Genetics and Power of Rock Music, Physicist Says Diversity Crossbreeds Excellence

James Gates Jr. is a theoretical physicist renowned for his work with supersymmetry, supergravity, and string theory. The University of Maryland professor says he prefers to shun publicity, but his curriculum vitae boasts of many accomplishments and honors, including service on former President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He also is an … Continue reading “Citing Genetics and Power of Rock Music, Physicist Says Diversity Crossbreeds Excellence”

Starving the Beast Prompts Choleric Call to Fatten a Sacred Cow

Feb 6, 2017 · · 31 Comments on Starving the Beast Prompts Choleric Call to Fatten a Sacred Cow

Listening to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill law professor Gene Nichol’s radical riff ripping trustees and the UNC system’s Board of Governors as cowards, and Republican lawmakers as oppressive racists, one might get the feeling he is on a career suicide mission. But in an auditorium half filled with fawning university professor compatriots … Continue reading “Starving the Beast Prompts Choleric Call to Fatten a Sacred Cow”

No Accountability: UNC System Foundations Operate in Secrecy

Feb 15, 2016 · · No Comments on No Accountability: UNC System Foundations Operate in Secrecy

The UNC System is flush with foundations that raise money for their associated universities, and researchers who have looked at these types of organizations on a national level have called them “slush funds” and “shadow corporations” that too often operate in secrecy, despite spending taxpayers’ money. The unusual practice in North Carolina in which foundations buy property, then lease space back to their universities, has raised eyebrows among some of those experts.