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Who owns the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill? The faculty? The chancellor? UNC Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees? The university system’s Board of Governors? Some other entity?
Who owns the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?
The morning after Donald Trump was elected president, I was sitting in the office of Carol Folt, the then-chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill, along with the school’s top academic officer, Provost Jim Dean, to discuss my concern that UNC had fostered an oppressive monoculture that was undermining critical thinking on campus. The timing was serendipitous, as
Though I’m too pessimistic to predict a turn for the better in higher education, it does seem that a number of schools are committed to reforming their ways — that is, if their faculty and students will let them.