Posted on 03/21/2023 3:49:34 AM PDT by karpov
When news broke that UNC-Chapel Hill had plans to create a new School of Civic Life and Leadership, it was inevitable that there would be some confusion. But nearly two months later, some UNC faculty members and local media outlets have continued to drive a false narrative about the school’s creation and the university’s governance practices.
On January 26, trustees voted to “request that the administration of UNC-CH accelerate its development of a School of Civic Life and Leadership.” The resolution passed unanimously with little discussion.
The following week, at a meeting of Chapel Hill’s Faculty Executive Council, faculty members expressed their disdain for the new program and their distrust of the process. Faculty Chair Mimi Chapman’s comments were representative: “To me, this is a solution in search of a problem, and the way it is happening and the content of what is happening is deeply, deeply troubling.”
At the same meeting, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and Provost Chris Clemens explained that, although the resolution was a surprise, plans to create a new school—a “superstructure” for the Program for Public Discourse—had been in progress since 2017. And, in an email to the whole Carolina community, Guskiewicz wrote, “I appreciate the encouragement of our Board to build on the work we have done” [emphasis added]. Despite these clarifications, faculty, the Daily Tar Heel, and the Raleigh News & Observer have continued to insist that the Board of Trustees has overstepped its authority and that the school is unneeded.
On February 2, professors Buck Goldstein and William Snider called the trustees’ action a “plan to create a new school out of whole cloth.” On February 6, law professor Gene Nichol wrote, “These folks are not ‘trustees.’ They are not ‘governors.’ They are an occupying force carrying out a mission.”
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A few hundred words signifying nothing. I did not see the reason for the hate or approval of this new school. So what am I to take out of the article?
What is the purpose and suggested underlying intent of the new school? The article fails to explain.
Thanks
It’s a school studying the shut down of free speech on campus, which all the local papers in Raleigh and Charlotte are decrying as unnecessary.
An excellent example of extremely poor writing.
Save as an example.
Thank you, for the update. I thought this might be the case but I did not want to assume and seems to be Very insidious. I’ll be sure to see if this is replicated where I live. One the liberal hive minds of a university is near by.
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