- Latest episodes: The Political Takeover of the UNC System
RALEIGH (July 6, 2023) – Dear readers, today we share the latest episodes in the ongoing saga The Political Takeover of the UNC System. Just as the UNC Governance Commission was ...Read more - UNC Commission offers recommendations legislators should heed
RALEIGH (June 27, 2023) – The Chronicle of Higher Education recently labeled the University of North Carolina System “a poster child for troubled governance.” The UNC Board of Governors and campus ...Read more - Commission: UNC boards should look more like NC
RALEIGH (June 12, 2023) – A bipartisan commission appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper made recommendations this week to increase representation on the University of North Carolina System’s governing boards. Cooper told ...Read more - BOG centralizes control of chancellor searches
RALEIGH (June 1, 2023) – The UNC Board of Governors adopted a new policy on searches for campus chancellors last week that gets rid of one bad policy the Board ...Read more - What price control of UNC? $400M
RALEIGH (May 18, 2023) – What price control of the UNC System? Apparently about $400 million. The cost of a new “Education Campus” to be built across Salisbury Street in Raleigh from ...Read more - UNC Governance: ‘Everybody wanted less politics’
RALEIGH (May 4, 2023) – Gov. Roy Cooper’s UNC Governance Commission began discussing its recommendations this week to make UNC governing boards more representative of the state, more ethical and ...Read more - House adds a touch of variety to BOG
RALEIGH (May 3, 2023) – The NC House made its appointments to the UNC Board of Governors this week – and added a touch of ethnic and political variety in ...Read more - UNC System in the crosshairs
RALEIGH (April 20, 2023) – If there’s any doubt that education – especially higher education – is in the crosshairs for next year’s elections, North Carolina’s Republican legislators made it ...Read more - Peter Hans on diversity and free expression
Editor’s Note: UNC System President Peter Hans delivered these remarks as his President’s Report to the UNC Board of Governors at the board’s meeting at UNC-Pembroke last week. They have ...Read more - Study: UNC System athletics have $1.1B impact
PEMBROKE (April 19, 2022) – They’re known as the front porch of the university. But they’re also big business. Athletics across the University of North Carolina System generate a total economic ...Read more








