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The University of North Carolina System Board will consider a policy on Wednesday targeting diversity, equity and inclusion. Several DEI-related positions could be removed.
A Board of Governors committee approved repealing and replacing the UNC System's policies on diversity and inclusion at a Wednesday meeting in Winston-Salem. The full board will vote next month.
Brian Murphy, WRAL
Thursday, April 4, 2024 -- As we celebrate now, we all must challenge ourselves - UNC President Peter Hans, the Board of Governors, trustees, chancellors, coaches, players and, yes, we fans - to protect athletic greatness against greed.
A well-connected member of the UNC Board of Trustees predicts that the university system will be forced to scrap some of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies later this year.
Paul Specht, WRAL state government reporter
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023 -- The School of Civic Life and Leadership's evolved over several years as an outgrowth of the university's ideologically diverse Program for Public Discourse and its forward-thinking Ideas in Action curriculum - led in large part by Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz himself.
Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023 -- Consider what's become of public education in North Carolina. UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz can be seen as a casualty of a toxic environment that has politicized public education from top to bottom.
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 -- Imagine running a $6.5 billion university system -- with 240,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a staff of 47,400 including 14,283 faculty - only to discover a major revision to a critical faculty recruitment tool was secreted into 1,411 pages of state budget legislation.
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023 -- Universities should use the levers of politics and money to rescue the humanities, not destroy them.
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.
Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023 -- Every UNC student must demonstrate they understand gun safety know how to use a firearm. In their freshman year they must take and pass the official Concealed Carry course. A mere eight hours of instruction. Students will be able to carry weapons to confront threats.
Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 -- If ever there was a contrast between those who want students at the University of North Carolina to represent all of North Carolina and those who don't, it was on full display recently with UNC-Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 -- A bipartisan commission appointed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper - led by Republican former UNC President Margaret Spellings and Democratic former UNC President Tom Ross - has made recommendations to depoliticize the System that need to be considered by legislators. Despite their initial dismissals of the panel's suggestions as "DOA," legislators must seriously review the recommendations - not reflexively send them back to the governor stamped "Veto."
Appointments to the Board of Governors would change under the draft proposal to address concerns that the current board, named by the General Assembly's Republican leadership, is too white, male and Republican.
Travis Fain, WRAL state government reporter
Critics call it an overreach that could threaten the UNC system's standing with accrediting agencies.
Paul Specht and Monica Casey, WRAL reporters
The University of North Carolina System's universities have less than four months to catch up with the 'science of reading,' and improve how they prepare prospective teachers to teach reading before the Board of Governors takes action.
Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter
Four of the nominees are current board members. Two would be new additions: Former state Sen. Harry Brown, an Onslow County Republican, and Haywood White III, a well-known lawyer.
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023 -- If UNC-Chapel Hill is to recruit the new school's faculty "across the ideological spectrum," it will have to inquire about prospective faculty members' connections, something the UNC System's Board of Governors has now prohibited.
Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 -- Two former Presidents of the UNC System who will lead a commission to assess the System's governing structure say the panel will examine models across the country and try to better define the roles of board members and organize for success.
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 -- Coming up with ways to make those who lead the UNC System and its campuses more representative of the state and its needs is an important and timely mission. Rather than seeing it as a threat to legislative leaders' power, Sen. Phil Berger and others should embrace Gov. Roy Cooper's proposal. It will work to help assure North Carolina can maintain a top-notch system of public higher education.
The week in North Carolina politics
Complaining that the Board of Governors which oversees the University of North Carolina System suffers too much political influence, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday the creation of a new commission to suggest changes.
Monday, May 2, 2022 -- A major report just released by the academic profession's national organization calls attention to alarming trends in the UNC System relating to governance and academic freedom, as well as to a toxic climate of institutional racism. Because of this report, the UNC System may well face a national sanction. This would tarnish the reputation of the system, its 17 campuses and the degrees it offers. For this distinction, North Carolinians can thank years of mismanagement by the General Assembly, the Board of Governors, campus boards of trustees and dozens of spineless university administrators.
