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UNC Protesters Greet Margaret Spellings on Campus Visit

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 22, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Margaret Spellings in visiting the UNC campus on Tuesday. Not surprisingly, student protesters were well aware of the visit and were there to greet Spellings as she entered Gerrard Hall to have lunch with select members of the...

Heavner: Welcome, President Spellings

Posted by Staff | Mar 8, 2016 | Uncategorized

Let’s welcome President Spellings, our new university system president, and Margaret, our new neighbor in the Southern Part of Heaven. This neighbor thing is important to every mission. A single parent whose children are grown,...

UNC Board of Governors Penalizes UNC – Chapel Hill Over Out-of-State Admissions

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 7, 2016 | Featured, UNC

One item on the UNC Board of Governors meeting agenda last Friday sparked a 30 minute debate and led to a $1 million penalty for the system’s flagship university. The debate generated from a recommendation of the board’s...

Protesters Greet Margaret Spellings as Board of Governors Tries to Increase Public Input

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 4, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Protests have been held over the last few months, even this week, speaking out against new UNC System President Margaret Spellings. But all was relatively composed, on Friday, at Fayetteville State University for the first...

UNC Faculty Chair: We Need to Work Together for the Good of the UNC System

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 1, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Tensions around the UNC System were brought to a fever pitch Tuesday with protests taking place on campuses across the state to correspond with the first day under new System President Margaret Spellings. One issue that has been...

Spellings: My Responsibility is to Serve Needs of Every Student and Tax Payer

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 1, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Tuesday was a busy day in higher education across North Carolina. It was Margaret Spellings’ first day as President of the UNC System after a process more than a year in the making. And protests were held on six campuses...

Protest Held on Margaret Spellings’ First Day as UNC System President

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 1, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Hundreds of students and faculty members at UNC gathered on Tuesday to protest the newly-minted UNC System President, Margaret Spellings. It didn’t take long for the chanting to start, just after 11 o’clock on Tuesday morning as...

NAACP Requests Records Over Hiring of Margaret Spellings as UNC System President

Posted by Blake Hodge | Feb 23, 2016 | Featured, UNC

A group delivered a public records request to the UNC System General Administration offices on Tuesday regarding the firing of Tom Ross as System President and the subsequent hiring of Margaret Spellings. Members of the North...

Former UNC BOG Chair Arrested Carrying Gun in Airport

Posted by Blake Hodge | Feb 11, 2016 | Crime, Featured

Former chair of the UNC Board of Governors John Fennebresque was arrested Thursday morning at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport after he apparently tried to take a gun through a security checkpoints, according to WSOC....

UNC Protester Says Group Will ‘Always’ Ask for Margaret Spellings’ Dismissal

Posted by Blake Hodge | Feb 1, 2016 | UNC

Four protesters were arrested at the UNC Board of Governors meeting last Tuesday. The group was protesting the election of Margaret Spellings at UNC System President. The magistrate did not find probably cause for charges...

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