February 12, 2020
Building an Inclusive Community
What is the key to understanding each other? What allows us to open ourselves to the diverse experience and perspectives of others? How can we create a community strengthened by our differences, rather than one divided by them? How can we engage in difficult conversations around important—and even polarizing—issues in ways that support, respect, and validate all our community members, their belief systems, and backgrounds?
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August 16, 2019
College Chronicles: Lex-Jordan Ibegbu (‘08) University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill & University Of Miami Law School
Vision, ambition, and will Lex-Jordan Ibegbu transferred into CA from public school his freshman year.“College choice is all about what you are exposed to,” Ibegbu explains. “Prior to CA, I didn’t really know what college […]
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August 13, 2019
Top of His Game
Sixteen years ago, Assistant Athletic Director Ray Pope never saw a place for himself in the classroom. In the summer of 2003, his phone was ringing off the hook; Cary Academy called daily, in search […]
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August 13, 2019
Partners in Innovation
Innovation has no sense of time. Inspiration springs forth without concern for the calendar. So, how do we respond to those innovative opportunities that arise in the middle of the academic year—opportunities to foster new initiatives, explore fresh ideas, and implement cutting-edge technologies?
Enter CA’s Parent Teacher Administration Alliance (PTAA).
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Andy Walsh (’09) North Carolina State University & University Of North Carolina Law School
Something to Prove
By his junior year at CA, Andy Walsh was grappling with his future.
An accomplished hockey player, he toyed with the idea of taking a gap year to play competitively.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Ritu Prasad (’10) : University Of Chicago Northwestern University, Medill School Of Journalism
Following her heart
The importance of college was always at the forefront of Ritu Prasad’s CA experience.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Ben Hatfield (‘14): United States Air Force Academy
Lifelong dreamer
When Ben Hatfield was a toddler, his parents took him to an air show at Andrews Air Force base. He immediately loved seeing all the planes flying in the air and his love of all things aeronautic was locked in.
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Ziyana Greene (’18): Agnes Scott College
A New Perspective
Ziyana Greene knew what she wanted for college: a small private school with resources on par with a larger university and a diverse student community. She’d always assumed that she’d find that experience at a historically black college or university (HBCU). It was a shock, then, when touring, she found that “despite being great schools, they just didn’t feel right. They didn’t click for me.”
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August 10, 2019
College Chronicles: Deming Haines (’17): Colorado College
An alternative approach
By all accounts, the last few years of Deming Haines’s CA experience were challenging ones. In 2014, he had transferred into CA as a junior—a tricky transition in and of itself—made all the more difficult by a serious medical condition. He was grappling with post-concussive syndrome which left him with debilitating daily headaches. The headaches would prove so disruptive as to necessitate repeating his junior year.
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