By Public Schools First October 26, 2024 During elections this year, voters in a number of counties will be asked to vote on local tax increases. Some, such as Union County and Orange County residents will vote on school bonds that will raise their property taxes to fund school construction projects. Others, such as Currituck,… READ MORE
Surprise, surprise: Roberts named UNC-CH chancellor
RALEIGH (August 9, 2024) – In an announcement that surprised absolutely no one, the UNC Board of Governors named interim chancellor and former Board of Governors member Lee Roberts today as the new Chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill. Roberts has served as interim chancellor since January, pledging to run the campus in “a nonpartisan way.” The… READ MORE
Chain of command: Chancellor answers to UNC President
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
Sending ‘the wrong message’
RALEIGH (May 24, 2024) – It’s 0.17% of NC State University’s budget. A report last week revealed that NC State likely spends more on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs than any other university in the 17-campus UNC System – $3.4 million in 2022-23. Yet that amounts to “less than one fifth of 1 percent… 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
Board of Governors: Please hit pause
By Dr. Barbara K. Rimer Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL (April 25, 2024) – I am not a Tar Heel born and bred, as the fight song goes, but I am a Tar Heel through and through. I love UNC-Chapel Hill and the state. For 17… READ MORE
Questions on DEI: What’s changed?
RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – As we approach a vote by the UNC Board of Governors next month to repeal a 2019 policy that requires UNC campuses to hire diversity officers and work toward diversity,1 a few observations and a few questions: 10 members of the Board of Governors voted in September 2019 to adopt the… READ MORE
UNC System makes modest legislative requests
WINSTON-SALEM (April 18, 2024) – The UNC System will seek an additional $70 million in operating funds – or 1.9% – from the General Assembly this spring, largely to reward UNC campuses for increases in enrollment and efficiency. The plan reviewed by the UNC Governors this week relies on the System’s new performance-weighted funding model,… 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
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