CHAPEL HILL (February 21, 2023) – There’s a case study in overreach by a UNC System governing board taking place before our eyes in Chapel Hill. Administrators and faculty alike were blindsided Jan. 26 when the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees adopted a resolution – which was not listed on the meeting agenda –… READ MORE
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Guskiewicz walks a tightrope
CHAPEL HILL (February 21, 2023) – Kevin Guskiewicz is walking a tightrope. With the surprise adoption last month by the Board of Trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill of a resolution asking the university to “accelerate” creation of a School of Civic Life and Leadership1 – followed by a “flabbergasted” response from bewildered faculty2 – UNC’s Chancellor… READ MORE
Art Padilla: Universities and DEI, Part 1
RALEIGH (February 17, 2023) – More than half of North Carolina’s 100 counties have lost population since 2010. Those who live in fast growing metropolitan areas like Raleigh, Charlotte, or Wilmington seldom grasp the poverty and lack of opportunity that exist just a few miles from their homes. Yet, instead of boldly focusing on these and other difficulties… READ MORE
Universities and DEI, Part 2: What’s new?
The exquisite irony in our polarized scenarios is that universities have had DEI-like entities and official statements about university commitments to civil rights laws in place for decades. The stationery in the UNC President’s office has declared institutional support for equal opportunity and affirmative action since the early 1970s. Perhaps the words have changed to… READ MORE
Universities and DEI, Part 3: Draconian options and board duties
The draconian hand of a central university board and the “nuclear option” of legislation or loyalty oaths or policy statements prohibiting what are, or are thought to be, inappropriate questions are not helpful here. We could benefit from less meddling by university boards and much less micro-management by our legislatures. Recruitment of top administrators is… READ MORE
Chapel Hill board antics catch accreditor’s eye
RALEIGH (February 8, 2023) – UNC-Chapel Hill will soon be asked to explain its Board of Trustees’ move to create a new program without consulting its faculty, the president of the University’s accrediting agency said yesterday. “We’re waiting for them to explain that, because that’s kind of not the way we do business,” Belle Wheelan,… READ MORE
Goldstein and Snider: How not to start a new School of Civic Life at UNC-Chapel Hill
By Buck Goldstein and William Snider CHAPEL HILL (February 2, 2023) – On Jan. 26, the chairman of the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees announced plans to launch a college within a college called the “School of Civic Life and Leadership” with 20 new faculty devoted to the effort. To say the UNC community was… READ MORE
Our hopes for 2023
RALEIGH (January 4, 2022) – With the elections and the holidays behind us, Higher Ed Works has some hopes for the new year. North Carolina is not investing in public education to keep pace with its No. 1 business climate1 ranking. The state ranks 49th for the percentage of its gross domestic product it devotes… READ MORE
2022: An anxious year
RALEIGH (December 29, 2022) – 2022 has been an anxious year for North Carolina. As the nation stumbled out of a pandemic, inflation spiked, interest rates rose, shortages in the state’s teaching workforce grew larger and battles over budgets – both in the legislature and in court – grew more sharply partisan. And leadership in… READ MORE
Cooper: University boards should reflect NC
RALEIGH (December 15, 2022) – Governing boards of North Carolina’s public universities should reflect the state’s diversity of race, geography, gender and political thought, Gov. Roy Cooper told a commission yesterday that he appointed to study governance of the UNC System. “We have a university leadership that doesn’t come close to reflecting that – and… READ MORE
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