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A Conversation with Tom Ross

Posted by Blake Hodge | Jan 15, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Tom Ross served as President of the UNC System for five years, up until January 4. His removal from that office was announced in January 2015 and along with the subsequent search leading to President-elect Margaret Spellings...

UNC Board of Governors Receives Briefing on Open Records Laws

Posted by Blake Hodge | Dec 10, 2015 | Featured, UNC

The UNC System Board of Governors heard a briefing on North Carolina open records laws on Thursday. The UNC Board of Governors has been under fire throughout the year for different reasons: firing Tom Ross, how they handled that...

Let’s Discuss UNC System Salaries

Posted by The Commentators | Nov 17, 2015 | The Commentators

Is $775,000 too much or not enough to pay the new president of the UNC System? Is a raise of 9.6 percent too much or not enough for the chancellor at Chapel Hill? The worthy mission of the UNC System, “to discover, create,...

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...

Secrecy Surrounding Chancellor Raises Draws Criticism

Posted by Blake Hodge | Nov 2, 2015 | Featured, UNC

The UNC Board of Governors decided in closed session on Friday to give pay raises to several chancellors across the UNC System. Now that information is finally being made public. UNC Chancellor Carol Folt and NC State Chancellor...

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.

Tom Ross on UNC Presidential Search: ‘I’ve Stayed Out of It’

Posted by Blake Hodge | Oct 20, 2015 | Featured, Higher Education, UNC

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...

UNC Board of Governors to Hold Emergency Meeting for Presidential Search

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

The UNC System Board of Governors has called an emergency meeting for one o’clock Friday afternoon at the SAS campus in Cary. The Presidential Search Committee has been meeting at a breakneck pace in recent weeks as they...

UNC System President Praises NC Senate Budget Proposals

Posted by Staff | May 29, 2014 | UNC

UNC System President Tom Ross issued a statement today praising the NC State Senate’s Draft Budget for 2014-2015.

UNC System to Receive Award for Online Integrity

Posted by Staff | Oct 27, 2013 | UNC

There is concern academic integrity is at stake when students take online classes; but the UNC is being applauded for the way it challenged this concern.

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