UNC President Margaret Spellings has garnered $90,000 in bonus pay after just one year on the job.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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University of North Carolina system campus leaders are entangled in regulations that waste time and money, and they should be free from such worries, system President Margaret Spellings said Friday
Published: Wednesday, January 18th, 2017 @ 3:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pay increases that were awarded last week to seven UNC system chancellors reflect a national trend that tends to inflate salaries for public higher-education administrators, an expert on college affordability said
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an exclusive interview with Carolina Journal, UNC system President Margaret Spellings discussed her leadership priorities, the future of UNC's Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the impacts of technology on the future of higher education
Published: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Following a three-hour special meeting of the UNC Board of Governors Tuesday, university leaders agreed to seek legal representation in a federal lawsuit over House Bill 2
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 @ 12:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has filed a declaratory judgment action asking the federal courts to clarify federal law.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 10:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Making higher education more affordable while enhancing accountability to North Carolina taxpayers highlighted remarks UNC President-Elect Margaret Spellings gave to the university’s Board of Governors at a Feb. 12 retreat
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 @ 3:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University's newly elected chancellor has unprecedented political experience and a diverse resume that will serve the university well, says UNC Board of Governors member David Powers
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 @ 5:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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UNC President Margaret Spellings has said that the North Carolina legislature's proposed Guaranteed Admissions Program (NC GAP) has identified the right problem, but has come up with the wrong solution. Her vision is of a UNC system accessible to everyone and educating everyone—not just elites
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 @ 2:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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UNC President Margaret Spellings was greeted Tuesday, her first day on the job, by student protests at six campuses around the state.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2016 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Protests turned violent during a Tuesday morning meeting of the UNC Board of Governors as students and faculty gathered once again to call for the removal of UNC president-elect Margaret Spellings, former secretary of education in the George W. Bush administration
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 3:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The UNC Board of Governors rightly recognizes gaps in its knowledge of the law - and admits its need for coaching on the subject, said Jonathan Jones, director of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition and Sunshine Center at Elon University.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 5:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Altha Cravey, a geography professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, issues a series of demands at Friday's meeting of the UNC Board of Governors before being removed by security.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 3:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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However complicated you want to try to make it, the concept of free speech does not contain the right to shut other people up. Unfortunately, there is an entire movement of political activists right now who would not only disagree with my assertion but would seek to keep me from saying...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've provided a lot of coverage to the saga of Gene Nichol, the alleged law professor at UNC, who appears to do little more with his six-figure salary than publish articles bashing Republicans.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:41 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Even before she assumes control of the University of North Carolina system, former Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has become a lightening rod for attacks by faculty, students, and activists on the left
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Higher education is changing rapidly, and the University of North Carolina system must adapt accordingly, said former U.S. secretary of education Margaret Spellings, who was elected Oct. 23 to be the sixth president of the consolidated UNC system.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After months of controversy surrounding his tenure as chairman of the UNC Board of Governors, John Fennebresque announced today that he will quit his post.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The search for the next University of North Carolina system president has finally concluded.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2015 @ 8:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the announcement that Margaret Spellings was unanimously elected President of the University of North Carolina System by the Board of Governors
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 10:36 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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UNC Board of Governors Chairman John Fennebresque and Margaret Spellings, the top candidate to become UNC system president, left a recent "emergency" meeting of the board to meet with Gov. Pat McCrory, a source at the meeting told Carolina Journal. Fennebresque and Spellings were in a closed...
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory's spokesman confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the governor met with "a candidate" for president of the UNC system at the governor's mansion. This news, in an email to Carolina Journal, came just as the UNC system released an agenda showing that the new president will be named at...
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 @ 12:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since 2006, when Margaret Spellings, then the U.S. secretary of education, issued a report stressing the need for higher graduation rates at colleges and universities, there has been pressure on universities to award more diplomas.
Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 @ 2:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Back in 2007, American universities faced a threat--the Department of Education wanted them to show that they were actually teaching something! Margaret Spellings, education secretary was...
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 @ 11:27 am
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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