CHAPEL HILL (Oct. 22, 2020) – After multiple episodes of micromanagement and rogue investigations by members of the UNC Board of Governors and campus trustees, the Board of Governors adopted revised rules last week for what’s expected of board members and how they can be disciplined. “I think this is very important,” Board Chair Randy… READ MORE
UNCSA and COVID-19: ‘Just what we can do under pressure’
WINSTON-SALEM (Oct. 15, 2020) – It’s quite a challenge to play a flute or trumpet wearing a mask. And imagine trying to teach dance – or a wind ensemble – while socially distancing. But the UNC School of the Arts is doing just that. And as some larger schools in the UNC System have reported… READ MORE
Chancellor searches: Deepening or thinning the applicant pool?
CHAPEL HILL (Sept. 17, 2020) – The UNC System Board of Governors voted Thursday to give UNC President Peter Hans new power to weigh in on choices of chancellors for the System’s 17 campuses. Until now, each campus’s Board of Trustees has conducted a search and recommended at least two finalists to become chancellor. The… READ MORE
Don’t short-circuit chancellor searches
(Sept. 16, 2020) – The President of the UNC System should be able to recommend candidates for chancellor at the System’s 17 institutions. But the President should not be able to dictate finalists in those searches. Currently, campus boards of trustees name search committees to interview candidates for chancellor. The campus board then recommends at… READ MORE
Why the search for a new NC Community College System president is so critical
By Breeden Blackwell and Bob Stephens The coronavirus pandemic and resulting unemployment crisis have thrown into sharp relief the value of North Carolina’s community colleges. First responders, nurses, respiratory therapists and other health care workers are largely educated at community colleges – tens of thousands of recent graduates were prepared for the front lines of… READ MORE
Why bother with a search if outcome is decided?
CHAPEL HILL – Why bother with a search if the outcome is predetermined? A proposed change in the rules for chancellor searches that’s before the UNC Board of Governors would direct the System President and Board officers to develop a pool of candidates within the UNC System as prospects to become chancellors at UNC institutions…. READ MORE
Hans: ‘Opportunity for all… all North Carolinians’
CHAPEL HILL (June 19, 2020) – Peter Hans is just 50 years old. But he has already spent decades preparing for his new job as President of the 17-campus University of North Carolina System. Hans, who grew up in Southport and Hendersonville, served six years on the State Board of Community Colleges, two of them… READ MORE
Tony Rand: Nothing is more important
CHAPEL HILL – Shortly after Tom Ross was named President of the University of North Carolina System in 2011, he got a call from former NC Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand. He expected congratulations. That’s not what he got. “Remember, nothing is more important to this State than our University,” Rand said. “Don’t mess it… READ MORE
Ramsey: Most important decision of the decade
CHAPEL HILL – The search for a new UNC System president has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, officials said last week. But a practiced hand will remain at the helm. “The timeline of the search has certainly been changed,” Randy Ramsey, Chair of the UNC Board of Governors, told the board. Ramsey said he… READ MORE
Roper: ‘Just get the budget done’
CHAPEL HILL – Legislative leaders and Gov. Roy Cooper think they’re scoring political points in their standoff over the 2019-21 state budget, which still hasn’t been adopted more than six months into the fiscal year. But as the governor and the legislature feud over Medicaid expansion and K-12 teacher pay, more than 240,000 students at… READ MORE
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