The Daily Tar Heel’s Cleve Wootson asked Sen. Ham Horton about expensive chancellor searches in the UNC system (e.g., $125,000 spent so far looking for a new chancellor for Appalachian State), and the senator took the opportunity to discuss the fact that so many UNC candidates are from outside the system. This is my favorite quote this week:
“We are somehow incapable of getting a chancellor from our own university system. The people who select the chancellor ought to sit down and say, ‘Hey, have we got someone already here who can be elevated?’ And if they conclude, ‘Golly, we have nothing but a bunch of idiots and batbrains,’ then we’re going to go outside of the state.'”
