Governance Newsletter – July 2015
We provide criteria for resizing the UNC system, review the results of a Civitas Institute poll, challenge faculty to teach more, and explain why the North Carolina General Assembly should…
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A coalition for transparency at the UNC Board of Governors is building
UNC Board of Governors meetings are hard to navigate for the uninitiated, such as a member of the public. The committee rooms are small, spread out, and poorly labeled. All the people who attend the meetings seem to know each other. Finding a place to sit in the boardroom often means arriving an hour before the meeting begins. And if you don’t get a seat, you’re out of luck. Although the main board meeting is video-streamed into the lobby, it’s hard to hear and it isn’t recorded.
When university boards of governance actually govern
It is heartwarming to see state officials do the jobs they were elected to do. Too often they have shied away from their obligations to ensure that the university system adheres to appropriate standards of scholarship.
Governance Newsletter – October 2014
We discuss controversial presidential searches around the country, propose five ideas for the UNC Board of Governors, and report on a new rating of North Carolina education schools.
Governance Newsletter – April 2014
In this issue, we take a look at the NC General Assembly’s shift towards “performance funding” for the UNC higher education system. We also examine the Board of Governor’s need…
Governance Newsletter – January 2014
In this issue of Governance, we examine the changes happening at the University of Wisconsin and their fight for who should run the university. We also take a look at…
University Governance’s Missing Link
Giving the public university system its own executive director would solve the “asymmetry of information” problem.