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Protesters Arrested at UNC Board of Governors Meeting

Posted by Blake Hodge | Jan 26, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Protesters disrupted the UNC Board of Governors meeting once again on Tuesday, just as they did at the board’s December meeting. Protesters were not removed one-by-one as they were before, instead continuing to chant after they...

Congressman David Price Thanks Tom Ross Criticizes BOG in House Remarks

Posted by Blake Hodge | Jan 7, 2016 | Featured, Higher Education

Tom Ross’ tenure as the President of the UNC System officially came to a close on Monday. The UNC Board of Governors announced in January 2015 that Ross would be removed from that position. That was the start of an...

Margaret Spellings: Embodiment of Corporatization of Higher Education

Posted by The Commentators | Dec 16, 2015 | The Commentators

I want to talk with you about UNC. I’ve been on the faculty of the geography department for 21 years. I love UNC. A few days ago, police removed me from the UNC Board of Governors meeting. I was in good company – faculty from...

Protesters Rally At UNC Board of Governors Meeting

Posted by Staff | Dec 11, 2015 | Featured, Higher Education

A group protesting the UNC Board of Governors and their decision to hire Margaret Spellings as UNC System President tried to force themselves past police officers and into the meeting, which was held Friday morning at the Friday...

UNC Board of Governors Will Give General Assembly Closed Session Minutes

Posted by Blake Hodge | Nov 16, 2015 | Featured, UNC

The Board of Governors met in special session on Friday to consider a request from some members of the General Assembly for a copy of the minutes from the October 30 meeting, where the board voted in closed session to give 12...

Dear Chancellor Folt

Posted by The Commentators | Nov 6, 2015 | The Commentators

Dear Chancellor Folt: You came to Carolina in our most difficult hour. And the darkness has not yet lifted. We need a strong leader right now, someone who can speak for all North Carolinians, for staff, students and faculty at...

Pushing Spellings into the pantheon, not the trash bin

Posted by D.G. Martin | Nov 4, 2015 | D.G. Martin

Let’s help her all we can. That is what I am telling my friends in the university community when they express displeasure at the selection of Margaret Spellings as their new president, or when they complain about the UNC...

Who is Margaret Spellings?

Posted by The Commentators | Oct 28, 2015 | The Commentators

Our university’s system Board of Governors, manipulating rules to speed up the process, has handed the presidency of our state’s university system to a non-academic with strong Republican political credentials....

Spellings Elected Unanimously Following Divisive Search Process

Posted by Staff | Oct 23, 2015 | Featured, State

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has been named the new president of UNC’s 17-campus university system.

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Protesters Arrested at UNC Board of Governors Meeting

Congressman David Price Thanks Tom Ross Criticizes BOG in House Remarks

Margaret Spellings: Embodiment of Corporatization of Higher Education

Protesters Rally At UNC Board of Governors Meeting

UNC Board of Governors Will Give General Assembly Closed Session Minutes

Dear Chancellor Folt

Pushing Spellings into the pantheon, not the trash bin

Who is Margaret Spellings?

Spellings Elected Unanimously Following Divisive Search Process

UNC: Under Fire?

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