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The UNC Board of Governors is the policy-making body legally charged with "the general determination, control, supervision, management, and governance of all affairs of the constituent institutions" which oversees billions of dollars in state appropriations, federal grants, tuition and fees received by the 16 constituent universities and colleges. In the 2009-10 North Carolina General Assembly 3 Billion dollars in appropriations to the UNC- system was 680% that for State government - 444 million. It elects the president, who administers the University. The 32 voting members of the Board of Governors are elected by the General Assembly for four-year terms. Each of the UNC campuses is headed by a chancellor who is chosen by the Board of Governors on the president's nomination and is responsible to the president. Each university has a board of trustees consisting of eight members elected by the Board of Governors, four appointed by the governor, and the president of the student body, who serves ex officio." http://www.northcarolina.edu/about/mission.htm Dr. Thomas Ross, former Chairman UNCG Board of Trustees, is current UNC-GA president and Erskine Bowles- inaugurated at UNCG and the self declared Greensboro Boy”- is the former UNC-GA president. President Erskine Bowles recommended UNCG Chancellor Dr. Linda Brady and Dr. Harold Martin, Sr. first as Vice President of Academic affairs at UNC-GA and again as Chancellor at NCA&T – his Alma Matta- to be hired by the UNC-BOG. |
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In 2006-2007, with self declared" Greensboro Boy" Erskine Bowles, who held his inauguration at UNCG, as President of University of North Carolina, Greensboro Attorney Jim W. Phillips, Jr. Chairman of the Board of Governors, and Bowles appointed Interim Chancellor Hacker at the helm at A&T, the NC A&T/UNC-G Joint Millennium Campus Greensboro Center for Innovative Development was Jacked by the Board of Governors and renamed Gateway Research Park Inc.. "Gateway University Research Park, a joint millennial campus created by the Board of Governors (SB 1925). Then BOG Chairman Jim Phillips, a political donor to Bowles unsuccessful 2004 US Senate campaign and current UNC-BOG Chairwomen Hannah Gage are former and current Board members cited in Controversy Surrounds UNC Board of Governors Selections, Violations of state law occur in House, Senate nomination process , “The system of legislative selection we now have seems likely to fill the BOG with political supporters of the legislative leaders”. [12] At the Sept 2006 BOG board meeting Chairman Jim Phillips suggested delegation to the President (Bowles) certain tasks what he termed as operation issues within the University, that historically were acted on in the committee setting. Phillips would say “in fact, during this past session of the General Assembly, this board was specifically authorized to delegate such things, as we deemed appropriate.” The 2005 UNC-BOG State Non-Budget Legislative Initiatives requested to “allow the Board of Governors’ to delegate statutory duties to the President.” On Nov. 13, 2006 UNC-BOG authorized authority previously held by UNC-BOG to the President (Bowles): with the additional authority may have transformed the President into an Emperor with an iron grip on the university with the: · Authority to appoint and set the salaries of Senior Academic and Administrative and other employees exempt from the State Personnel Act serving with the UNC General Administration. · Authority to set salary ranges for Senior Academic and Administrative officers of the constituent institution of university. · Authority to approve conferrals of tenure and to ser salaries of faculty, Senior Academic and Administrative officers, except the chancellors, and other employees exempt from the State Personnel Act at campuses etc.... The additional authority may have transformed President (Bowles) into an Emperor with an iron grip on the university personnel, especially among minorities where last hired and first fired is generally the mindset. Governance in the Public Interest: A Case Study of the University of North Carolina System Recommended the Board Delegate greater operating oversight and responsibility to the individual campus boards of trustees. Citing “under the current system, the campus boards of trustees have relatively little authority over their institutions and virtually no input into the hiring, firing, and compensation of senior staff. [13]
Phyllis Palmiero, June 2005, for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni Commissioned by the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. In 2003 Dr. Harold Martin, Chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, presented the role of the chancellor, at the Board of Governors mandatory board of trustee orientation.[P20] He was later be tapped for the VP for Academic Affairs at UNC-GA in contrast to his counter parts at other HBCUs in North Carolina who got gone when Bowles became President. Was One Killed to Scare Everybody Former Fayetteville State Chancellor Dr. Thelma J. Bryan sued The University of North Carolina (Thelma J. Bryan vs. The University of North Carolina) alleging Race and Gender discrimination containing numerous allegations pertaining to President Bowles. Dr. T.J. Bryan, "alleged Bowles told her that if she did not agree to resign then she would never work in higher education again."[P22] and she “spoke to Mr. Harold Martin Vice-President of Academic Affairs. "He told Dr. Bryan to sign the letter right of resignation "now" or the deal to continue her employment as a part-time employee was off the table." [P27] The suit alleged Dr. Bryan, suffered, and continues to suffer, mental, emotional, and physical trauma because of the gender and racial discrimination committed by the Defendant.[P48}. [14] |
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