Erskine Bowles

As UNC-system president, Bowles is at the head of the UNC-system General Administration, which incorporates the most senior administrative offices in the system. This core staff is responsible for carrying out policies enacted by the Board of Governors and leading the constituent universities in the areas of academic affairs, business and financial matters, planning, student affairs, research and development, legal issues and government relations.

Bowles became UNC-system president in 2006 after an extensive public servant and business career. He was born in Greensboro, N.C. and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1967.

Prior to becoming president, Bowles was part of former President Bill Clinton’s administration. In 1993, he was appointed director of the Small Business Administration. In 1994, he was appointed deputy White House chief of staff and in 1996, chief of staff.

In 2005, Bowles was named U.N. deputy special envoy to Southeast Asian countries affected by the December 2004 tsunami.

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UNC-system president search begins with special meeting

Kevin Kiley

03/05/2010

The search for UNC-system President Erskine Bowles’ successor officially launched Thursday.

At a special Board of Governors meeting, Chairwoman Hannah Gage explained the procedure set out in 1997, with three committees made up mostly of board members.

Dave Gahary

03/04/2010

Running a campaign isn’t free. In Orange County, the price just to enter an election runs anywhere from $5 to $925.

Friday marked the filing deadline for candidates for the May 4 primaries. But before candidates could submit their names, they had to pay a required fee, known as a filing fee.

Editorial Board

02/19/2010

Erskine Bowles is good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like him.

And he was a good choice to serve asa co-chairman of the Obama Administration’s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

As he finishes his tenure as president of the UNC system, he will also be spending time where his expertise is equally, if not more, needed.

Bowles to draw on experience

Ariel ZirulnicK

02/19/2010

Erskine Bowles announced his retirement from UNC last Friday.

UNC-system President Erskine Bowles played a key role in balancing the federal budget in 1997. President Barack Obama is asking him to step up once again.

Obama signed an executive order Thursday that establishes a bipartisan federal commission responsible for crafting a plan to reduce the federal deficit.

Editorial Board

02/17/2010

Although UNC-system President Erskine Bowles has only been in office fewer than five years, he has undoubtedly left his mark.

It will take a capable and effective successor to see through the initiatives and issues that he will leave behind when he formally steps down by the end of 2010.

Ariel Zirulnick

02/15/2010

Erskine Bowles, 64, announced that he will retire after nearly five years with the UNC system.

UNC-system President Erskine Bowles announced Friday that he will retire from his post at the end of the year.

The search for his successor will be launched in the next couple of weeks, but Bowles said he is prepared to stay until a replacement has been chosen and the transition is complete.

Erskine Bowles announces his retirement

Ariel Zirulnick

02/12/2010

10 A.M. FRIDAY — UNC-system President Erskine Bowles announced this morning that he will retire from his post at the end of the year.

The announcement was expected. Bowles, who took the job in 2006, repeatedly said he only intended to hold the position for five years. Bowles turns 65 in August, the customary age for the system president to step down.

Tuition could rise if state won’t budge

Tarini Parti

02/12/2010

UNC-system President Erskine Bowles is hinging his tuition plans for the system on a legislative repeal that is not guaranteed — and it could mean that tuition would increase.

Bowles has requested that the N.C. General Assembly swap its plan to retain tuition revenue for the state’s general fund with his proposal to give the money back to the UNC system.

Bowles sends on tuition requests

Ariel Zirulnick

02/11/2010

UNC-system President Erskine Bowles is continuing to promote a lower tuition increase for system schools than the increase proposed by the N.C. General Assembly.

Bowles’ recommendations match the ones created by individual campuses in the last few months. All are less than the tuition increase mandated by the N.C. General Assembly at the close of its 2009 session.

Bowling a strike

Editorial Board

11/18/2009

UNC-system President Erskine Bowles deserves credit for standing up for system schools by pressuring the N.C. General Assembly to divert at least a part of a $200 student tax to the universities, not the state.

Taxpayers ﬁrst to be protected

Ariel Zirulnick

11/16/2009

Correction (Feb. 28 11:13 p.m.) Due to a reporting error this story misquoted Chancellor Holden Thorp, who actually said the Board of Trustees was likely to support his tuition increase recommendation.

Ariel Zirulnick

11/13/2009

UNC-system President Erskine Bowles, left, and Lt. Gen. John Mulholland Jr. signed an agreement Thursday.

A formal partnership between the UNC system and U.S. Army Special Operations Command made so much sense to both parties that it seemed silly to delay it.

Only a year after Special Operations Command first approached the UNC system, the two institutions signed an agreement that established the partnership.

Tarini Parti

11/13/2009

The UNC-system Board of Governors proposed a plan Thursday to balance the universities’ and state’s needs for additional money while keeping tuition costs down for students.

Army to collaborate with system schools

Ariel Zirulnick

11/12/2009

Lt. Gen. John Mulholland Jr. will sign an agreement on campus today.

The UNC system and the U.S. Army will launch a new chapter in their already-extensive collaboration today.

The two institutions will centralize the interaction between the military and the academic communities when UNC-system President Erskine Bowles and Lt. Gen. John Mulholland Jr., commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, sign an agreement before today’s Board of Governors meeting.

Bowles serves as developer director

Dean Drescher and Kevin Kiley

10/28/2009

UNC-system President Erskine Bowles leads the board of directors of the company that was chosen to develop University Square through a closed process.

But University representatives said his relationship with Cousins Properties did not have any effect on the decision to hire the company to develop the 12-acre space acquired last year by the UNC-Chapel Hill Foundation.

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