By Paul FultonSpecial to The PilotMarch 6, 2023 In response to Connie Lovell’s column Feb. 25 (“New UNC School Will Give Students Critical Thinking Skills Needed in Life”): The notion of adding conservative faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill is a popular one, given public perceptions. However, my own grandchildren who have graduated from Chapel Hill tell… READ MORE
Case study in UNC board overreach?
CHAPEL HILL (February 21, 2023) – There’s a case study in overreach by a UNC System governing board taking place before our eyes in Chapel Hill. Administrators and faculty alike were blindsided Jan. 26 when the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees adopted a resolution – which was not listed on the meeting agenda –… READ MORE
2022: An anxious year
RALEIGH (December 29, 2022) – 2022 has been an anxious year for North Carolina. As the nation stumbled out of a pandemic, inflation spiked, interest rates rose, shortages in the state’s teaching workforce grew larger and battles over budgets – both in the legislature and in court – grew more sharply partisan. And leadership in… READ MORE
Cooper: University boards should reflect NC
RALEIGH (December 15, 2022) – Governing boards of North Carolina’s public universities should reflect the state’s diversity of race, geography, gender and political thought, Gov. Roy Cooper told a commission yesterday that he appointed to study governance of the UNC System. “We have a university leadership that doesn’t come close to reflecting that – and… READ MORE
Ross & Spellings: Organize UNC System for success
RALEIGH (December 1, 2022) – Two former Presidents of the UNC System who will lead a commission to assess the System’s governing structure say the panel will examine models across the country and try to better define the roles of board members. “It’s a good time to stop, look and listen to how things are… READ MORE
Governor names UNC Governance Commission members
RALEIGH (November 23, 2022) – After years of turnover in leadership and political interference in the UNC System, Gov. Roy Cooper named members of his Commission on the Governance of Public Universities in North Carolina today. “It’s clear that leaders across our state, and across the political spectrum, care deeply about our remarkable university system… READ MORE
Revolving-door leadership
RALEIGH (July 19, 2022) – Until the middle of the last decade, leaders of the UNC and NC Community College Systems generally stayed for five to seven years. But with the announcement today that President Thomas Stith III will depart the Community College System Office in Raleigh Friday after little more than 18 months as president,… READ MORE
UNC across the street
RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Now we know where state legislators want to put the UNC System, NC Community College System, Department of Public Instruction and Department of Commerce. Across the street. And now it will cost a mere $180 million in taxpayer dollars. In what has grown to a $250 million plan to demolish… READ MORE
$115 million for what?
RALEIGH (June 9, 2022) – They want to spend $115 million on what? State legislators ordered the UNC System to move its offices from Chapel Hill to Raleigh by the end of this year and spend $15 million to rent space as a $100 million building is constructed in the state government complex. They aim… READ MORE
Some UNC BOG members object to Raleigh move
CHAPEL HILL (May 26, 2022) – The board that oversees the UNC System agreed today to spend $15 million to move the System’s offices to Raleigh – but not without vocal objections from several members. The budget approved by state legislators last November ordered the UNC System to move its offices from Chapel Hill to… READ MORE
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