Jay Schalin at the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy documents how the UNC system has been used for years as a way to fund Democratic Party politicans and their ideas. NC State’s hiring Mary Easley is just the latest example.
But the questionable hiring and promotion of the former governor?s wife
are only part of a larger pattern of political patronage and undue
privilege in the UNC system. And while the Easleys? alleged corruption
is an extremely serious matter, there is a broader pattern that is more
likely to have a lasting effect on the state: North Carolina?s
Democratic Party is using the university system as a way to maintain
influence outside of the electoral process.
This is a “must read” article.
