Less than five years after taking office, UNC President Erskine Bowles has announced plans to leave the job by the end of the year. Jane Shaw of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy assesses Bowles? tenure and offers thoughts about the search for a new university system president during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.
Terry Stoops will discuss the controversy over the North Carolina public school history curriculum, and Joe Coletti will react to the latest news about overspending in a Medicaid program called ?personal care services.?
Plus John Skvarla, founder of the Alliance for Bonded Term Limits, will explain how that group is asking candidates to put their money on the line when they promise to limit their time in office.
And you?ll hear some comments about Tea Party activists and education reform from Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate and a recent visitor to North Carolina for the latest Emerging Issues Forum at N.C. State.