An interview with the consultant overseeing the search for a new chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill is short on details but does give an interesting hint.
Eric Ferreri, writing in the Raleigh News and Observer, quotes consultant Bill Funk as saying that many candidates being considered have some connection with Chapel Hill. And then, says Ferreri:
?He also mentioned well-regarded universities that recently announced coming leadership changes.?
Ferreri noted two of these, the president of Dartmouth who will leave next year, and Gene Nichol, who just resigned after a controversial headship at Virginia’s William and Mary. Nichol supported removing the cross from the campus Wren Chapel and let the Sex Workers? Art Show be held on campus, twice. These acts, apparently, led the trustees to terminate his contract.
Nichol is a former Chapel Hill law school dean, and in 2000 he was in the running for Chapel Hill?s chancellor. Could he be back?
