At the request of University of North Carolina President-Elect Margaret Spellings, the university system hired The Boston Consulting Group to conduct an organizational assessment.

After interviews with 140 stakeholders across the system, the consultants released a draft report at the UNC Board of Governors’ retreat last week in which they highlighted themes that emerged from the interviews:

• The UNC system is a tremendous asset. “UNC is the biggest asset the people of NC have.”
• However, it has lost some direction and luster lately. “It used to be the crown jewel of North Carolina.”
• Roles aren’t clear. “Swim lanes? It is a splash party – someone doing a cannon ball into the pool.”
• Lack of trust: “It is a quadrilateral of mistrust between and across the Legislature, the Board, the GA and the institutions.”
• But there remains a sense of optimism. “We believe Margaret (Spellings) will be the change agent for the system that it needs.”

Read the preliminary report here: http://media2.newsobserver.com/content/media/2016/2/12/BCG%20Project%20Update%202016-02-12.pdf