The UNC Board of Governors will be meeting at 11 o’clock on Friday morning to select a new System President.
A tentative agenda for the meeting calls for the 32-member board to go into closed session for reports from the Presidential Search Committee and the Committee on Personnel & Tenure.
The board will then move into open session for a report from the Presidential Search Committee, Election of a President and Remarks from the President-Elect before adjourning.
Tom Ross is the current UNC System President who is being forced out by the board. That announcement was made in late January.
Ross told WCHL following an event at UNC on Tuesday afternoon that he would like to continue serving in his role but that he would work with the new President for a smooth transition.
“The Presidential search is something that I know virtually nothing about,” Ross says. “I’ve stayed out of it because I think it’s the board’s responsibility. I don’t think there’s any secret that I love this university and I wanted to stay longer but they have the prerogative to pick their own leader. And I’m hopeful they’ll find somebody really good, and I pledge to work with whoever it is to make them successful.
“The University of North Carolina deserves that.”
The full Board of Governors met to discuss the Presidential Search for the first time as an entire unit last Friday.
Reports from the meeting say that Margaret Spellings, former US Secretary of Education under George W. Bush was in attendance at the meeting as the lead candidate to replace Ross.
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