Do UNC trustees need to ‘stay in our lane’? Memo shows their

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Do UNC trustees need to ‘stay in our lane’? Memo shows their power is scaled back

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In the second section of the memo, Hans states that he is removing the trustees’ “authority to execute certain personnel actions” and giving those duties to the interim chancellor. In both memos, Hans tied the decisions to information all UNC System boards of trustees submitted in 2021, at the direction of the Board of Governors. The board directed trustee boards in the UNC System “to adopt a new board resolution amending and restating each campus’s delegations of authority between the respective board of trustees and campus officials.” The Chapel Hill memo states that Hans is re-delegating the authorities to “better align UNC Chapel Hill’s delegations of authority regarding personnel actions with the rest of the UNC System.” In the memo sent to officials in Elizabeth City, Hans removed the same powers from ECSU trustees and delegated them to the university’s chancellor. Like he did in the UNC memo, Hans said he was re-delegating the powers “to align Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) delegations of authority with the rest of the UNC System.”

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Apr 8, 2024 11:30:23 GMT -5 jbrob said:

In the second section of the memo, Hans states that he is removing the trustees’ “authority to execute certain personnel actions” and giving those duties to the interim chancellor. In both memos, Hans tied the decisions to information all UNC System boards of trustees submitted in 2021, at the direction of the Board of Governors. The board directed trustee boards in the UNC System “to adopt a new board resolution amending and restating each campus’s delegations of authority between the respective board of trustees and campus officials.” The Chapel Hill memo states that Hans is re-delegating the authorities to “better align UNC Chapel Hill’s delegations of authority regarding personnel actions with the rest of the UNC System.” In the memo sent to officials in Elizabeth City, Hans removed the same powers from ECSU trustees and delegated them to the university’s chancellor. Like he did in the UNC memo, Hans said he was re-delegating the powers “to align Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) delegations of authority with the rest of the UNC System.”

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But in Chapel Hill, the communication from the UNC System office came after a year in which trustees made headlines for controversial policy decisions and actions, including for its efforts to develop a School of Civic Life and Leadership and for adopting an admissions and hiring policy that prohibits the university from considering “race, sex, color or ethnicity” in those decisions.

IF, we get a Manchurian candidate as chancellor, it is equal to and easier than replacing a whole board, as in Tennessee!