RALEIGH: Following UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz’ resignation to become President of Michigan State University, Governor Roy Cooper reiterated the need for changes in the governance of the UNC System, highlighting recommendations put forward by the Governor’s Commission
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 9:00 am
By: Governor's Office
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I suspect conservatives have complained about liberalism on college campuses since UNC was founded in 1789.
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 @ 11:56 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The three masters charged N.C. taxpayers $690 an hour for their work on maps.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 8:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican legislative leaders and their redistricting critics could battle over court-ordered fees for the work of special masters.
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2022 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the legal dispute over a new congressional map for North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 3:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Beaufort businessman Randy Ramsey has been elected permanent chairman of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors.
Published: Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 @ 7:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors has a transparency problem. Again.
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2019 @ 4:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Harry Smith, former chairman of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors, has officially resigned from the board.
Published: Saturday, November 9th, 2019 @ 11:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Who should lead the University of North Carolina System?
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 7:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It may be weeks — perhaps months — before a three-judge panel issues a ruling on whether lawmakers drew N.C. voting districts legally, or whether the legislative districts are partisan gerrymanders.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 @ 12:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Sometimes it is hard finding truth. That's where I am regarding the UNC Board of Governors.
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 @ 9:49 am
By: Tom Campbell
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A bipartisan group of state lawmakers Thursday introduced the second of what may be several measures to reform North Carolina's redistricting process.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 3:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The leader of the University of North Carolina System announced she is leaving her post after just 2 1/2 years on the job
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2018 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Founding UNC President Bill Friday was fond of boasting that our universities were the "crown jewels" of our state. Friday welcomed the restructuring of all public universities into a consolidated system in the 1970s, but he disagreed with the 32-member Board of Governors
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 @ 3:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Public and private universities in the United States are regulated to the nth degree
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 2:23 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Amid questions about legislative interference in the actions of the UNC Board of Governors, the board voted Friday to make records of its controversial Oct. 30 meeting available for review by members of the General Assembly.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 8:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Altha Cravey, a geography professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, issues a series of demands at Friday's meeting of the UNC Board of Governors before being removed by security.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 3:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Fennebresque's friends and coworkers call him "Czar." That appears to be a fitting nickname, for his imperious exercise of authority was his downfall as chairman of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 12:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The search committee tasked with finding the next leader of East Carolina University has selected a national firm to help with that responsibility.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:10 am
By: ECU News Services
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In recollecting 2015, I remember legendary CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite, who closed each evening's newscast by saying,
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 3:38 am
By: Tom Campbell
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After months of controversy surrounding his tenure as chairman of the UNC Board of Governors, John Fennebresque announced today that he will quit his post.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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UNC Board of Governors Chairman John Fennebresque and Margaret Spellings, the top candidate to become UNC system president, left a recent "emergency" meeting of the board to meet with Gov. Pat McCrory, a source at the meeting told Carolina Journal. Fennebresque and Spellings were in a closed...
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today's emergency meeting of the UNC Board of Governors, where a possible successor to outgoing president Tom Ross will be interviewed, has been called an attempt to bypass a law enacted by the General Assembly requiring more transparency in the selection process, leading several board members to...
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 @ 2:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chancellor Steve Ballard announced today he will step down as East Carolina University's top leader next year, serving in his current role until July 1, 2016. Ballard has served as chancellor since 2004.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 12:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Ever since Republicans gained majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly in 2010 and won the governor's office in 2012, Democrats and Progressives have lamented the decline of higher education and especially the University of North Carolina System. Critics of North Carolina Republicans...
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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East Carolina University will host one of four regional input sessions for the public, faculty, staff, students and alumni to give their thoughts on the qualities most needed in the new University of North Carolina president.
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2015 @ 10:17 am
By: ECU News Services
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 9:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An open letter from Mike Adams: Dear University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors (BOG)...
Published: Saturday, March 28th, 2015 @ 12:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Speaking at a Raleigh, North Carolina, luncheon on March 10, UNC system president Tom Ross warned of "dangerous" trends in higher education today, especially in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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East Carolina University is moving ahead with plans to rehabilitate a seven-block area in Greenville's warehouse district as a millennial campus - a site where the university can collaborate with private companies to commercialize research discoveries and offer advanced training to benefit the...
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 1:17 am
By: ECU News Services
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Steve Logan, former East Carolina University head football coach, recently remarked that things don't usually turn out well for head coaches. The same is often true for anyone who serves "at the pleasure" of someone or some group. UNC President Tom Ross is the latest example.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 2:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Over the past two years, the University of North Carolina has been implementing recommendations laid out by the General Administration and Board of Governors in their 2013 “strategic directions” report, “Our Time, Our Future: the UNC Compact with North Carolina.”
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 12:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory released the following statement after today's University of North Carolina Board of Governors Meeting...
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 6:33 pm
By: Chris Downey
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