Cooper signs bill to reduce the size of UNC Board of Governors
By Ana Irizarry and Caroline Metzler | Mar. 5, 2017Gov. Roy Cooper signed his first bill into law Friday.
Read More »The Board of Governors makes policy decisions for the UNC system and all of its constituent institutions. The board also elects the president of the UNC system — currently Thomas Ross — who oversees the system’s administrative affairs. The N.C. General Assembly elects all 32 voting members of the board to four-year terms. There are non-voting members as well, such as former board chairmen, former governors and the president of the Association of Student Governments.
Committees are often appointed to discuss certain issues. Some of those standing committees include one for audits, budget and finance, educational planning, policies and programs, personnel and tenure, public affairs, strategic directions and university governance.
Gov. Roy Cooper signed his first bill into law Friday.
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Gov. Roy Cooper signed his first bill into law Friday.
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Posing for photos with a January 2016 edition of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC-system President Margaret Spellings joked she ought to keep the paper for her performance review this week.
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The UNC Board of Governors is set to propose a policy at today’s meeting that would ban university centers and institutions from pursuing legal action or providing legal counsel.
Read More »The North Carolina Senate passed House Bill 39 Thursday, which would shrink the membership of the UNC-system Board of Governors from 32 to 24 if signed into law.
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A subcommittee of the North Carolina Board of Governors, focusing on sexual harassment and sexual violence policy, met virtually on Tuesday to discuss definitions of related terms.
Read More »Unfazed by the widespread protests over her appointment, UNC-system President Margaret Spellings focused on creating and implementing the system five-year strategic plan in 2016.
Read More »The UNC system implemented a tuition freeze Monday after the N.C. General Assembly passed the freeze via the state budget in July.
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Soon after UNC-system President Margaret Spellings officially took office, the Boston Consulting Group reported that many felt the system lacked a strategic focus in a study of the UNC system — including administration, faculty, staff and students. This report coincided with the early planning sessions of a new five-year strategic plan for the system. After months of meetings and community forums the UNC-system Board of Governors drafted five themes for the new plan — access, affordability and efficiency, student success, economic impact and community engagement, and excellent and diverse institutions.
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By Bole Stanley Senior Writer Graig Meyer began Monday’s meeting with the League of Women Voters of Orange, Durham and Chatham Counties by addressing the elephant in the room. Meyer began his speech by saying although the recent election had many feeling anxious, there was much reason for optimism, and then engaging the crowd in an exercise where each person in the audience shared something they appreciated about our democracy and something they were hopeful could change.
Read More »The UNC Board of Governors Committee on Strategic Planning met yesterday and discussed increased access, lowering the achievement gap and degree completion as part of a discussion of their five-year plan.
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Faculty members expressed a desire for more inclusion in the focus of the UNC Board of Governors’ Strategic Plan for the UNC system at a board forum Thursday.
Read More »The UNC-system Board of Governors met Friday in Chapel Hill to discuss how its strategic plan for the university system should address diversity and the rising cost of higher education.
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After its Friday meeting, the UNC Board of Governors hosted its third public comment session — a practice implemented in May following months of protests, and the first since the school year began.
Read More »The University of North Carolina system told a federal court Friday it won’t enforce House Bill 2, which would require transgender students to use the restroom which corresponds to the sex on their birth certificates.
Read More »During Friday's meeting in Chapel Hill, the UNC-system Board of Governors voted to approve sending a letter to N.C.
Read More »The UNC Board of Governors held a special meeting on Tuesday after counter lawsuits were filed by Governor Pat McCrory and the Department of Justice.
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A coalition of UNC-system students gathered Friday morning in front of the Center for School Leadership Development in Chapel Hill during the Board of Governor's monthly meeting — but Board Chairperson Lou Bissette said some of their anger was misplaced.
Read More »It's the time of year when everyone's thinking about graduation — and evidently, the BOG Budget and Finance Committee is no exception.
Read More »The UNC-system Board of Governors announced Monday they are relocating their upcoming meeting from the University of North Carolina at Asheville to Chapel Hill.
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Joaquín Carcaño is soft-spoken. But the 27-year-old from South Texas is not ashamed of his identity.
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