by Thomas Mills | Dec 2, 2019 | Editor's Blog
The email came from interim UNC-CH Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz. Silent Sam would never return to the UNC campus. That seemed like good news on the day before Thanksgiving. But that was just half of the news. Guskiewicz didn’t mention the $2.5 million...
by Alexander H. Jones | Mar 22, 2019 | Politics
Asked about recent turmoil on the UNC Board of Governors, Phil Berger intoned, “the board is making some changes to to the university functions and operates. That’s going to result, I think, in some folks not being fully happy with that.” Those...
by Kirk Kovach | Mar 22, 2019 | The Kovach Corner
As is their wont, Republicans in the General Assembly pushed through their chosen candidates to sit on the UNC Board of Governors with little to no input from the Democratic minority. Per the N&O: The Senate’s election came one day after a rancorous debate in the...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 15, 2019 | Editor's Blog
So it looks like the UNC Board of Governors has run off another employee. UNC-CH Chancelor Carol Folt announced she’s leaving at the end of the academic year, just weeks after UNC President Margaret Spellings announced her resignation. Since firing Tom Ross, the Board...
by Thomas Mills | Oct 26, 2018 | Politics
Well that was fast. Margaret Spellings is already leaving UNC. George Bush’s Education Secretary took the job after the UNC Board of Governors unceremoniously fired Tom Ross, a highly respected and competent president, for no other reason than he was a registered...
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