- Latest episodes: The Political Takeover of the UNC SystemRALEIGH (July 6, 2023) – Dear readers, today we share the latest episodes in the ongoing saga The Political Takeover of the UNC System. Just as the UNC Governance Commission was ...Read more
- UNC Commission offers recommendations legislators should heedRALEIGH (June 27, 2023) – The Chronicle of Higher Education recently labeled the University of North Carolina System “a poster child for troubled governance.” The UNC Board of Governors and campus ...Read more
- Commission: UNC boards should look more like NCRALEIGH (June 12, 2023) – A bipartisan commission appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper made recommendations this week to increase representation on the University of North Carolina System’s governing boards. Cooper told ...Read more
- BOG centralizes control of chancellor searchesRALEIGH (June 1, 2023) – The UNC Board of Governors adopted a new policy on searches for campus chancellors last week that gets rid of one bad policy the Board ...Read more
- What price control of UNC? $400MRALEIGH (May 18, 2023) – What price control of the UNC System? Apparently about $400 million. The cost of a new “Education Campus” to be built across Salisbury Street in Raleigh from ...Read more
- UNC Governance: ‘Everybody wanted less politics’RALEIGH (May 4, 2023) – Gov. Roy Cooper’s UNC Governance Commission began discussing its recommendations this week to make UNC governing boards more representative of the state, more ethical and ...Read more
- House adds a touch of variety to BOGRALEIGH (May 3, 2023) – The NC House made its appointments to the UNC Board of Governors this week – and added a touch of ethnic and political variety in ...Read more
- UNC System in the crosshairsRALEIGH (April 20, 2023) – If there’s any doubt that education – especially higher education – is in the crosshairs for next year’s elections, North Carolina’s Republican legislators made it ...Read more
- Peter Hans on diversity and free expressionEditor’s Note: UNC System President Peter Hans delivered these remarks as his President’s Report to the UNC Board of Governors at the board’s meeting at UNC-Pembroke last week. They have ...Read more
- Study: UNC System athletics have $1.1B impactPEMBROKE (April 19, 2022) – They’re known as the front porch of the university. But they’re also big business. Athletics across the University of North Carolina System generate a total economic ...Read more