For the second time in less than a week, the UNC – Chapel Hill Board of Trustees held an hours-long closed session discussion Tuesday after Chancellor Carol Folt announced her resignation last week.
Folt’s resignation was coupled with the chancellor ordering the removal of the remaining base of the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam. The statue was toppled by protesters last August.
The Board of Trustees met for more than three hours in closed session last Friday. That meeting came after two emergency meetings of the UNC System Board of Governors. The system board accepted Folt’s resignation but accelerated the timeline from the end of the semester, as Folt had planned, to the end of January.
The agenda for Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting said the board would be considering “confidential personnel matters,” which was the same agenda item listed last Friday. Most trustees participated in Tuesday’s meeting via conference call, and Folt was once again not in attendance.
Interim system president Dr. Bill Roper was seen entering the room during the trustees’ discussion.
After the meeting, trustee chair Haywood Cochrane listed qualities the board was looking for in an interim chancellor.
“Deep love for the university, strong work ethic, integrity, unparalleled understanding of the need for balance on this campus and beyond.”
Cochrane said that he did feel Folt had embodied those values while chancellor.
The UNC System Board of Governors are scheduled to meet on Friday. The campus Board of Trustees are then scheduled to meet next Thursday, which is scheduled to be Folt’s final day leading the university.
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