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
BOG wants a voice in athletic conference switches
RALEIGH (January 25, 2024) – As college athletic conferences expand and contract like accordions, the UNC Board of Governors is moving to insert itself in the process. A committee of the board that oversees all 17 UNC campuses approved a policy Wednesday – to be considered by the full board in February – that would… 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
Perfect example why Guskiewicz needs to stay
RALEIGH (November 29, 2023) – We’re glad John Preyer doesn’t dispute the many ways public education has been damaged in North Carolina. Higher Ed Works Chair Paul Fulton authored a column last week that said it’s no wonder UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is considering a job as president of Michigan State University, given… READ MORE
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