Former Gov. Jim Hunt Former North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt worked with UNC President-Elect Margaret Spellings when she was an education advisor for then-Gov. George W. Bush of Texas in the late 1990s. The two states were in a friendly competition to see which could raise test scores fastest – especially among low-income students. Hunt… READ MORE
Too important
Yes – it was a tumultuous, divisive search with too many political overtones. But it is time to close ranks behind Margaret Spellings, whom the UNC Board of Governors has selected as the next President of the University of North Carolina System. The stakes are too high to do otherwise: The futures of 220,000 students,… READ MORE