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North Carolina college students will soon finish up the spring semester and leave campus for internships, study abroad and beach vacations. One of their professors, John Steen, will be grading his final exams — and then moving into his parents’ basement.
There are the familiar faces of the worker’s rights movement: fast-food workers, health care workers, farmers. And there are the unexpected ones: university professors.
The months-long process to replace UNC-system President Tom Ross is guaranteed to be closely watched across the state — and will likely begin within the next few weeks.
UNC School of Medicine doctors may no longer be able to perform abortions or teach medical students how to perform them, if a new proposal in the N.C. General Assembly becomes law.
Some UNC students know the Association of Student Governments for its advocacy to state lawmakers and the UNC-system Board of Governors — while others know it as an ineffective organization that the University has considered leaving twice since 2012.
Given that the UNC-system Board of Governors is the policy-making body for a diverse system of 17 campuses and 220,000 students, many members of the higher education community expect the board’s makeup to reflect that diversity. But students and faculty have often questioned that diversity during the past year. The board, made up of 32 voting members, is elected by the state legislature. Since 2010, the state has been under Republican control — and the current board largely reflects that political background, with 28 registered Republicans and no Democrats serving. More than 90 percent of current board members are white — a statistic that has faced some backlash in a state university system where six campuses are historically minority institutions. Still, when lawmakers named new nominees who could serve on the board starting this summer, more than half a dozen were black.
The UNC-system Board of Governors continues to face scrutiny at the state and national level — and this week, state lawmakers will elect 16 new members to the board.
The UNC-system Board of Governors is the governing body of North Carolina’s 16 public university campuses and the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics. The board elects the system’s president and oversees tuition and fee levels, approves campus budgets and makes various policy decisions, such as a recent move to eliminate three academic centers in the system.
CHARLOTTE — Public comment isn’t allowed at UNC Board of Governors meetings, but on Friday, UNC geography professor Altha Cravey had something to say.
CHARLOTTE — Amid students chanting, shaking fists and banging on doors, the UNC Board of Governors voted unanimously on Friday to approve the closing of three UNC-system centers, including Chapel Hill's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
Duke University senior Safa al-Saeedi remembers the morning after three Muslim students lost their lives Feb. 10 in Chapel Hill.
DURHAM — It’s been nearly two weeks since the shooting of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill rocked universities and Muslim communities, and on Saturday, Duke University’s Muslim Students Association came together to push the conversation forward.
After UNC Board of Governors member Jim Holmes announced Wednesday that UNC-Chapel Hill’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity would be recommended for discontinuation, he asked if the board’s working group on centers and institutes had any questions.
Returning to rally each year
It was a candlelit vigil. But in the frigid winds, the candles wouldn’t light.
Losing prized faculty members to other universities that make lucrative offers — it’s an unfortunately familiar, persistent problem for the UNC system.
The forced resignation of UNC-system President Tom Ross in January embodied what many university faculty members across the state perceive as a political attack on public higher education.
CARY — Students and faculty have made clear over the past week through public statements, letters to the editor and social media that they want a say in the search for UNC-system President Tom Ross’ successor.
Students from the UNC BOG Democracy Coalition met with several Board of Governors members on Monday, brimming with questions about system president Tom Ross’ forced resignation and the ongoing review of the UNC system’s centers and institutes.