Republican crusade to convert UNC-Chapel Hill will lead to its demise Opinion

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2. This has been going on a while now. It started with the expansion of the BOG.

If anyone’s watched them in action over time they would have seen how the board has expanded exponentially to the point where they are practically sitting on top of each other in their meetings.

The appointments have become so bizarre that Governor Cooper ordered a review of their appointment process last fall.

Gov. Cooper orders review of how UNC System leaders are appointed

Korie Dean, The Charlotte Observer - Nov 1, 2022

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order Tuesday creating a commission to assess how leaders are appointed to public university governance boards in the state — and to offer potential reforms to the process, he said.

The Commission on the Future of Public Universities will evaluate the governance structure of the UNC System and each of the 17 public schools in the system, and make recommendations and proposals to the governor’s office “on how to improve existing governance,” including who should be tasked with appointing leaders.

The bipartisan commission will be co-chaired by Margaret Spellings, who served as U.S. secretary of education under President George W. Bush and was president of the UNC System from 2016 to 2019, and Tom Ross, a former N.C. Superior Court judge and president of Davidson College who served as president of the UNC System from 2011 to 2016.

In announcing the commission at a press conference Tuesday, Cooper cited “signs of trouble” with the current appointment and governance structure at both the UNC System and individual university levels, including “undue political influence and bureaucratic meddling.”
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gov-cooper-orders-review-of-how-unc-system-leaders-are-appointed/ar-AA13CDiq

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