RALEIGH — When Erskine Bowles became president of the University of North Carolina in 2006, he promised to increase the number of teachers produced by the university, especially in math and science. At his inaugural address he cited the “enormous gap” between the numbers of teachers produced by the UNC system and the 11,000 teachers that North Carolina hires each year. Although the results so far are modest, he is making teacher education a high priority.
RALEIGH — The tacit agreement that underlies the unified structure of UNC — the understanding that all campuses will speak with one voice to the state legislature through the university administration — might be beginning to fray.
RALEIGH — University of North Carolina officials are considering a minimum admission standard for all campuses, Harold L. Martin, senior vice president for academic affairs, told a meeting of the Education Planning Committee of the Board of Governors last month. Such a standard could be proposed as early as June.
GREENSBORO — UNC-Greensboro and North Carolina A&T officials recently submitted a request to the University of North Carolina general administration to operate a school of nanotechnology and nanoengineering.
RALEIGH — The Government Accountability Office says college and university transfer policies increase costs to students and taxpayers and should be streamlined. Community college graduates must take an average of 10 more hours and add three months to their college careers, a GAO report concluded.
CHAPEL HILL – Former Clinton Administration Chief of Staff and two-time U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles was named Monday the 16th president of the University of North Carolina system. Bowles’ appointment will become effective Jan. 1, when he will then succeed current President Molly Broad, who announced in April her plans to retire at the end of the 2005-06 academic year or when a successor had been named.
RALEIGH — The news last fall of sweetheart deals to exiting administrators UNC-Chapel Hill placed the institution under unsettling scrutiny of its priorities.They came to light after other UNC-CH officials had spent months making the university’s case against any more budget cuts affecting them, on the basis that the university had nowhere left to cut. Last month, Carolina Journal learned of another lucrative send-off to a UNC-CH official.
