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.
Thursday morning, the Board of Governors educational planning committee voted to discontinue 46 degree programs across the UNC-System, including one at UNC, Human Biology.
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Thursday morning, the Board of Governors educational planning committee voted to discontinue 46 degree programs across the UNC-System, including one at UNC, Human Biology.
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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.
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A demographic analysis of the UNC student body and the Board of Governors showed slight differences between the two groups, which have often been at odds this year.
Read More »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.
Read More »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.
Read More »The recent centers and institutes review carried out by the UNC Board of Governors has sparked concerns that the board took its power over UNC-system campuses too far.
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Gene Nichol is a man who won’t be moved.
Read More »1. The review began in September.
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CHARLOTTE — Public comment isn’t allowed at UNC Board of Governors meetings, but on Friday, UNC geography professor Altha Cravey had something to say.
Read More »CHARLOTTE — One day after a contentious Board of Governors meeting on Friday at UNC-Charlotte, the UNC-system Association of Student Governments met and focused on sexual assault and mental health advocacy.
Read More »Chancellor Carol Folt raced to Friday’s Faculty Council meeting from the Board of Governors meeting in Charlotte, where members decided to close UNC School of Law’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity and two other UNC-system centers.
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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. Friday's meeting was marked by vocal, passionate protests that at times drowned out the proceedings.
Read More »Outcry surrounding a UNC Board of Governors recommendation to discontinue UNC’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity has stirred reactions of national scope.
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More than 60 UNC law faculty have signed onto a statement asserting that the UNC Board of Governors’ recommendations on the future of two centers in the law school limit academic freedom and chill free speech.
Read More »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.
Read More »Without the Center for Faculty Excellence, biology professor Kelly Hogan would have waited a lot longer to see the achievement gap in her Biology 101 class almost disappear.
Read More »Despite the lack of funding for "Orgasm? Yes, Please!," an event that teaches participants about healthy sex, Project Dinah is still trying to raise awareness about sexual wellness in creative ways.
Read More »Teaching, research and public service — advocates for the Carolina Center for Public Service say UNC’s historic commitment to these values is threatened as the Board of Governors reviews whether the state should pay for the center.
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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.
Read More »For Allen Buansi, it happened when UNC’s Center for Civil Rights presented to his class at East Chapel Hill High School.
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