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Today the personnel and tenure committee of the UNC Board of Governors voted to approve the UNC General Administration’s request to create a new position: Associate Vice President of Strategic…
Ten years ago, UNC-Chapel Hill coach Dean Smith addressed the Knight Commission on the subject of freshmen student-athletes and academics. Smith urged setting athletics aside for academics as freshmen acclimate:…
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online about UNC system president Tom Ross’ response to a proposal to close one public university campus. Terry Stoops’ Daily Journal explains how the…
The creation in August of a Board of Governors Committee on Public Affairs—designed to lobby on behalf of UNC schools—suggests that it works for the university system. At its creation…
Since last year I have been questioning UNC’s commitment to its own honor as opposed to success on the gridiron. I have asked why “the school’s constellation of honorables [haven’t…
New UNC System President Thomas Ross is looking for ways to eliminate “unneccessary duplication” among UNC programs, reports the News & Observer. Good. And it’s about time. Here’s a no-brainer…
It?s good to see that top aides to powerful Democratic politicians can still find a lucrative home in the UNC system when they want to move on. Governor Perdue?s budget…
No lie— I talked with Dad the Liberal on the phone this morning and out of the blue he begins expressing his admiration for newly-confirmed UNC President Thomas Ross. I…
View in your browser. Welcome I have had two important questions on my mind. Where does the next president of the University of North Carolina, Thomas W. Ross, stand on…
In today’s Pope Center piece Jay Schalin writes about the new president of the UNC system, Thomas Ross. Ross is currently the president of Davidson College. He says that as…
The N&R’s Doug Clark is asking forgiveness for previewing parts of D.G. Martin’s column on possible Erskine Bowles replacements before it runs in Sunday’s print edition. Here’s Martin’s column in…