This is very interesting, considering North Carolina A&T’s recent internal problems:
The N.C. A&T board of trustees has rescinded its prior decision to name the university’s new School of Education building after former Chancellor James Renick.
The board made its decision Monday during a closed session.
Board chairwoman Velma Speight-Buford said the matter was brought back to the trustees by a board member after it was discovered that the trustees, who approved the honor two years ago, didn’t follow the proper procedures. She declined to name the board member.
“It was procedural,” Speight-Buford said. “When we did it, we didn’t follow procedure.”
…Part of the conversation centered on internal audits requested by interim Chancellor Lloyd V. Hackley in late 2006.
Those audits were spurred by poor internal checks and financial irregularities.
A report on those audits was sent to UNC system President Erskine Bowles earlier this week, Speight-Buford said.
Although the audits were a topic of conversation during Monday’s board meeting, mention of them was not made in the final vote to take Renick’s name off the building, she said.
Note the decision was made in closed session, so we really don’t know the true nature of the discussion. It’s also hard to believe that A&T’s board is just now finding out proper procedures weren’t followed two years after honoring Renick with the “highlight of (his) professional life.”
