The UNC Board of Governors is meeting in Asheville this Thursday and Friday, but the fate of the UNC Center for Civil Rights is not on the agenda – at least not officially.
The board’s Education Planning Committee was originally scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal to ban the center from engaging in litigation – a proposal that would effectively gut the center altogether, as it’s part of the UNC School of Law. That vote got delayed, though, because this week’s meeting will be the first one for some of the committee members.
Nevertheless, some of the committee members reportedly still tried to hold the vote this week. Mark Dorosin, the Center’s managing attorney, reported on Facebook that two board members moved for a vote during a teleconference on Tuesday. The committee rejected the motion – but Dorosin says several members indicated that was only because they wanted to wait until the scheduled vote.
That scheduled vote is set to take place in three weeks. The Education Planning Committee has scheduled a meeting on Tuesday, August 1, at noon in the Center for School Leadership Development on Friday Center Drive in Chapel Hill. The advocacy-ban proposal is already on the agenda.
Dorosin says he’ll be in Asheville this week nonetheless – just in case.
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