RALEIGH (June 13, 2024) – After UNC Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees voted last month to transfer $2.3 million from Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs to public safety, UNC System President Peter Hans made it clear the trustees don’t have that power. Hans told reporters the Chapel Hill board’s action was “not in compliance with… READ MORE
Lee Roberts: ‘We don’t have a more important institution’
CHAPEL HILL (June 6, 2024) – After clashes with protesters and a “symbolic” vote by trustees to transfer funds out of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, “What I say is that all are welcome here, and that this university is for everybody,” says UNC Chapel Hill’s interim chancellor. Leoneda Inge, co-host of WUNC’s Due South,… READ MORE
Hans: ‘The most freedom-loving corner of our society’
EDITOR’S NOTE: UNC System President Peter Hans made the following remarks at the Red, White and Carolina Blue ceremony May 10 honoring veterans and military graduates. CHAPEL HILL (May 10, 2024) – There are a lot of humbling, gratifying moments in this job, but it’s rare that I get to say with such conviction that… READ MORE
Don’t short-circuit chancellor search
RALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – There’s a process to choose chancellors at UNC System campuses. Follow it. If there was any doubt university leadership has become hyper-politicized in recent years, state House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger removed it last week. As if we need more evidence, both declared that ‘interim’ should… READ MORE
Protesters crossed a line
CHAPEL HILL (May 2, 2024) – Pro-Palestinian protesters crossed a line Tuesday. Yes, in response to atrocities committed by the militant group Hamas, Israelis have engaged in quite literal overkill among Palestinians in Gaza. And yes, Palestinian supporters have a constitutionally protected right in this country to protest what they see as genocide. But when… READ MORE
A well-earned smackdown
RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Call it a well-earned smackdown. On the day Lee Roberts took office as Interim Chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill in January, UNC System leaders sent the Chair of the university’s Board of Trustees a memo reminding him of the limits on the board’s authority and reassigning certain personnel powers to Roberts…. READ MORE
UNC-CH chancellor search launches
CHAPEL HILL (March 23, 2024) – Here we go: The search “advisory” committee for a new chancellor at UNC Chapel Hill met for the first time Thursday under a policy that decidedly shifts control of the process to the UNC System Office. “Good leadership matters profoundly to the faculty, to the staff, to the students… READ MORE
Guskiewicz: “Thank you, Carolina”
CHAPEL HILL (January 8, 2024) – As he prepares to depart UNC-Chapel Hill to become President of Michigan State University, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz shared the following message with the Carolina Community. Carolina has been fortunate to have Guskiewicz at the helm as it navigates troubled waters. We expect a legitimate national search for his successor… READ MORE
Give Roberts a chance
RALEIGH (December 20, 2023) – Give Lee Roberts a chance. As sad and needless as the departure of Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is, UNC-Chapel Hill and the state need Roberts to succeed as the University’s interim chancellor. As a member of the UNC Board of Governors, Roberts has behaved professionally and demonstrated he is plenty smart… READ MORE
They drove him out
EAST LANSING, Mich. (December 8, 2023) – They drove him out. As Higher Ed Works Chair Paul Fulton told us more than two weeks ago, the NC General Assembly, the UNC Board of Governors and especially the current UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees all but made it certain that Kevin Guskiewicz – a MacArthur “genius… READ MORE
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