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RALEIGH: Following UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz’ resignation to become President of Michigan State University, Governor Roy Cooper reiterated the need for changes in the governance of the UNC System, highlighting recommendations put forward by the Governor’s Commission
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 9:00 am
By: Governor's Office
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Members of the UNC System’s Board of Governors and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees are asking questions and offering pushback to university administrators following a “surprise” announcement last week
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two students seeking refunds from the University of North Carolina System's flagship schools for fees paid during campus shutdowns restated their arguments Monday for the state's highest court.
Published: Sunday, July 23rd, 2023 @ 7:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The University of North Carolina System is asking the state's highest court to reject a petition from students and parents seeking refunds related to COVID-19 shutdowns.
Published: Thursday, June 29th, 2023 @ 1:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, Nov. 1, North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper held a press conference at the Executive Mansion announcing the creation of a new commission tasked with reforming the University of North Carolina System’s governance.
Published: Monday, November 28th, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Former UNC System Presidents Tom Ross and Margaret Spellings will lead effort to review governance structure, system leadership processes to position university system to meet future needs
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2022 @ 8:54 am
By: Governor's Office
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Peter Hans officially became President of the UNC University System Monday.
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2020 @ 1:19 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The University of North Carolina System's Board of Governors is expected to confirm Dr. William Roper, dean of UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine and CEO of UNC Health Care, as interim president of the UNC System, sources confirmed to Carolina Journal
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 @ 5:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Board of Trustees for UNC-Chapel Hill will make suggestions by Nov. 15 about what to do with Silent Sam, the campus’s controversial Confederate statue torn down by protesters, members of the university system’s Board of Governors say
Published: Monday, September 3rd, 2018 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After months of searching, UNC-Asheville has a new chancellor. Nancy Cable, president of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations - an organization that funds private higher education, health care, and religious causes, among others - was elected to lead the university
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 11:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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UNC President Margaret Spellings announced the University of North Carolina's Research Opportunities Initiative (UNC ROI) will provide three new grants worth a total of $6.2 million to teams from six universities in the UNC system
Published: Saturday, September 30th, 2017 @ 4:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory led an educational discussion about Connect NC today at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Governor McCrory is the first governor to visit the UNCSA campus in more than 10-years. The conversation focused on what the bond would bring to UNCSA and the Triad...
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 3:37 am
By: McCrory Communications
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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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The dust is settling following approval of the latest state budget.
Published: Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This year, a plan for a "gender-neutral" housing complex at UNC-Chapel Hill drew lots of attention, first from the state legislature, and then from the university system's governing body, the UNC Board of Governors. The plan was intended to permit gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, or transgendered...
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 7:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Leaked email, UNC BOG nominations cause problems for NCGOP, bumps in the road for Senator-in-WaitingFor years, the UNC Board of Governors has been known as a popular destination for political cronies seeking patronage payoffs. Though, recent scandals within the university system had prompted state Republicans to talk up the idea of shaking the place up.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 2:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat has trained both barrels on the public education establishment -- specifically those folks within the UNC system.
Published: Friday, February 1st, 2013 @ 11:49 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The wild swings in North Carolina's higher education budget may have come to a halt. Last year, the University of North Carolina system absorbed roughly $400 million in cuts -- a few years before that, higher ed was getting annual increases of 5 percent and more.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past three fiscal years, the University of North Carolina system has received hundreds of millions of dollars less in state tax dollars than it sought, as legislators of both parties struggled to close the fiscal gaps triggered by the Great Recession.
Published: Friday, July 13th, 2012 @ 7:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Senate's recommended adjustments to the state budget for FY 2012-13 would increase spending by $210 million over the amount approved in last year's biennial budget, and by $470 million over the current 2011-12 spending total.
Published: Thursday, June 14th, 2012 @ 12:12 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center in conjunction with the Shepard Cancer Foundation is hosting an educational session on Tuesday, September 20th at 6:00 p.m. in the Education Department at University Health Systems Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 @ 9:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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