… not with a whimper but a bang.

UNC President Erskine Bowles announced that he will cut the UNC General Administration budget by 10 percent, including 15.5 jobs, “four vice presidents’ jobs and six at the level of associate vice president or director,” according to The News & Observer. It’s “only the beginning,” the N&O reports. “Several months ago, Bowles created a committee on efficiency and effectiveness that is reviewing campus operations and will make recommendations in October.”

Here’s a Way to go, President Bowles! ? and a note of cautious optimism in anticipation of that report.