By D.G. MARTIN Former UNC System President Margaret Spellings spoke for many North Carolinians concerned about the state’s public multi-campus university when she questioned, “You know, are we organized for success? “So we’ve got a Board of Trustees and a chancellor (on each campus), and a President and a Board of Governors (for the System),… READ MORE
UNC Presidential Search: Independence, integrity, stature
EDITOR’S NOTE: A delegation of Higher Ed Works board members met last week with Randy Ramsey, Chair of the UNC System Board of Governors and Co-Chair of the Board’s Presidential Search Committee; and Kim Strach, Executive Director of the Presidential Search, to discuss the search process. The following letter summarizes the group’s major points. December… READ MORE
Who would apply?
ELIZABETH CITY – Randy Ramsey is just settling in as Chair of the UNC Board of Governors. But he deserves credit for wanting to rein in at least one rogue board member for launching personal investigations outside the board’s processes. Ramsey is also co-chair of the committee overseeing the search for yet another UNC System… READ MORE
BOG/BOT appointments: More of the same
RALEIGH – More of the same. That’s what this year’s appointments to both the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and campus Boards of Trustees appear to have given us. After a week of turmoil and tension over relations between the Board of Governors’ chairman and resigning East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton,1 state… READ MORE
UNC is at a crossroads
EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week, a group of North Carolina business, civic, philanthropic and education leaders posted an open letter to those who govern the University of North Carolina System seeking reform of University governance. We reprint their letter here. To those who govern the University of North Carolina: The University of North Carolina is at… READ MORE
Making it Work with UNC’s Board
By Mary Sue Coleman, PhD President, Association of American Universities As a proud alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), I have watched with dismay as the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) has plunged one of the world’s most respected institutions of higher learning into a crisis. This is the institution… READ MORE
A deeply troubling development
CHAPEL HILL – In a deeply troubling development, North Carolina’s public universities have lost a second leader with Carol Folt’s announcement Monday that she’ll step down as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.1 Since Folt arrived in 2013: Applications to UNC-Chapel Hill grew to a record 43,384 (for a first-year class… READ MORE
2018: Questions of leadership and governance
Our top higher-education stories of 2018 fell into several broad categories: LEADERSHIP/GOVERNANCE The year saw large questions of leadership and governance raised but not always answered. In May, the NC Board of Community Colleges named Peter Hans – a former board member with extensive experience in both community colleges and universities – as the new… READ MORE
Former BOG members on good governance
Good governance can take many shapes and forms, depending on the organization and circumstance, and is not always easy to see or detect. Bad governance is different – like many things, you know it when you see it. And what we saw at a recent meeting of the UNC Board of Governors was clearly bad… READ MORE
UNC Board of Governors – Year in Review
By W. Louis Bissette, Jr. Chair, UNC Board of Governors North Carolina has a proud bipartisan tradition of building and sustaining public higher education — a cause that benefits all North Carolinians. As a native of the Old North State, I’ve been both a beneficiary and a dedicated defender of that tradition. During my time… READ MORE
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