CHAPEL HILL (January 25, 2019) – Using summer school to graduate on time, retaining the best instructors, supporting community-college transfers and a $4.4 billion backlog in building repairs and renovations are top priorities for the UNC System with the 2019 General Assembly. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors adopted a set of budget… READ MORE
Spellings: A University that changes with the times
CHAPEL HILL – As she prepares to depart as President of the University of North Carolina System, there are a few things Margaret Spellings wants North Carolinians to know. “While the people of North Carolina have a tremendous and righteous pride about their University System, there are some things they don’t know,” she says in… READ MORE
UNC System hits 70% graduation rate
CHAPEL HILL – Just one year into implementation of its Higher Expectations strategic plan, the University of North Carolina System has already exceeded its five-year goal for improving graduation rates. While many who attended the UNC Board of Governors’ meeting last week were focused on machinations over the Silent Sam Confederate monument, UNC President Margaret… READ MORE
Harry Smith: Strong universities battle urbanization
CHAPEL HILL – There’s plenty of hand-wringing these days over North Carolina’s rural-urban divide. But the chairman of the UNC System’s governing board sees a solution in the state’s colleges and universities. “If you take a look at the rural West and the rural East, I mean we’ve got a challenge there due to urbanization,”… READ MORE
Spellings: NC public universities ‘the lifeblood of the state’
CHAPEL HILL – Margaret Spellings gets higher education – she champions the education of a broader cross-section of North Carolinians. Regrettably, though, Spellings announced last week that she will leave next year as President of the University of North Carolina System. “North Carolina’s public universities are the lifeblood of the state,” she said as she… READ MORE
Universities: A shifting burden
RALEIGH – Perhaps because it has a constitutional mandate for it, North Carolina is known across the country for strong support of its public universities. The state continues to rank among the best in state spending per university student. But state support per student is still well below where it was before the Great Recession…. READ MORE
Former BOG members on good governance
Good governance can take many shapes and forms, depending on the organization and circumstance, and is not always easy to see or detect. Bad governance is different – like many things, you know it when you see it. And what we saw at a recent meeting of the UNC Board of Governors was clearly bad… READ MORE
C.D. Spangler Jr. – ‘A giant of our state’
CHAPEL HILL – Dick Spangler understood the role our public universities play in North Carolina – and why it’s essential that all North Carolinians have access to them. Clemmie Dixon Spangler Jr., a billionaire businessman from Charlotte who served as president of the University of North Carolina System from 1986 to 1997, died Sunday at… READ MORE
Harry Smith: No shortage of UNC strategic priorities
CHAPEL HILL – The new Chair of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors sees no shortage of priorities to improve the UNC System. “The biggest focus will be moving the UNC System forward where we’re behind in multiple different areas,” Harry Smith, who became chair of the board July 1, says in the… READ MORE
Harry Smith: The No. 1 online platform
CHAPEL HILL – The new Chair of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors pictures big things from the UNC System online, not unlike the massive offerings of Arizona State and Liberty Universities. “I’m very pro-developing a robust System online platform. Right now we compete (with each other), and we’ve never harnessed the power… READ MORE
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