Hello reader! Welcome to Higher Stakes. I’m Jane Winik Sartwell, here to deliver your North Carolina higher education news.
Over the weekend, I visited the Duke Lemur Center for the first time. I was blown away. My favorite lemur was the blue-eyed black lemur — its piercing eyes saw straight into my soul. An honorable mention goes to the tiny, nocturnal lemur who perched on the doorknob of its darkened enclosure to say hello to its spectators.
Earlier this month, the Lemur Center’s co-founder Peter Klopfer passed away. My colleague Josh Shaffer wrote about Klopfer’s life, his work, and his decades of civil rights activism…