Fred Mills, Sr.

James Edward (Jim) Nance

George A. Sywassink, Jr.

Roger Aiken

Rodney Hood

R. Doyle Parrish

James Marvin Barnes (Jimmy)

James M. Deal, Jr.

Walter C. Davenport

Yvonne Thomas Knott, III

Henry Williams Hinton

William Graham Champion Mitchell

Irvin Roseman

Dr. Joan Perry

Muriel W. Sheubrooks

Laura Wiley

PackMan97 wrote: As a followup to this note, don't focus on NC State...focus instead on all of the UNC system schools being represented. Right now it's all Chapel Hill and hardly anyone else.

PackMan97 wrote: As a followup to this note, don't focus on NC State...focus instead on all of the UNC system schools being represented. Right now it's all Chapel Hill and hardly anyone else.

biggoodwolf wrote:

PackMan97 wrote: As a followup to this note, don't focus on NC State...focus instead on all of the UNC system schools being represented. Right now it's all Chapel Hill and hardly anyone else.

Great suggestion.

There currently are 33 members of the BOG. My view of a good distribution would be six to eight each affiliated with UNC-CH, six to eight affiliated with NC State, and six to eight affiliated with one of the other UNC schools. The rest should be well qualified people from business, industry and education who have no affiliation with the UNC system.

eccdogg wrote: Could someone who has them handy post the stats on college attended numbers for each university?

Also it looks like Senate link goes to House.

biggoodwolf wrote:

eccdogg wrote: Could someone who has them handy post the stats on college attended numbers for each university?

Also it looks like Senate link goes to House.

Correction made. Thanks!

Here they are for quick access.

Senate

House

eccdogg wrote: Could someone who has them handy post the stats on college attended numbers for each university?

Dear UNC Board of Governors Select Committee Members,

As a graduate of the UNC system back in 1984, I’ve taken great pride in my degree and the work I put into receiving it.   However, over the past two years the ongoing scandal going on at UNC-CH has been a major blight on our system and I feel has tarnished my degree in the process. 

Without boring you with the gory details, this situation at UNC-CH is both an academic and an athletic scandal that has been going on since the early 1990s, probably earlier.   My question is, where has the UNC BOG been during all of this?  Unfortunately they have remained silent minus an occasional statement to “review” UNC-CH’s self-appointed and self-serving reviews.

Where is the leadership for the UNC BOG?  Why have they not demanded a full independent investigation to get to the bottom of this situation, resolve it and then move on?  The reason I believe is the UNC BOG is over-represented by folks that have a vested interest in protecting UNC-CH in not getting the truth out into the open.  Unfortunately, this sandbagging attitude has allowed this situation to drag on for over two years with no end in sight.  This lack of willingness to ask the hard questions drags down the entire UNC system.

I respectfully request that major consideration be given to changing the makeup of the UNC BOG’s constituents.  I believe that both UNC-CH and NCSU should have equal representation as the two major universities in the UNC system.  The remaining schools in the system should have a minimum of 1 representative in the BOG.    

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

biggoodwolf wrote: Most of us have been upset and complaining for years about so many members of the UNC BOG being graduates of or in some way affiliated with UNC at Chapel Hill. At present, I believe it's 23 vs only 5 affiliated with NC State. Well now is the time to try to do something about it.

Two committees have been established in the NC legislature, one in the House and one in the Senate, to make nominations for new members to be appointed this year. I'm not sure how many there are, but it will be several. These committees, or at lease the Senate committee, will be meeting this week to adopt a resolution setting forth the process and timeline for nominations and elections.

The links below will take you to the respective committee pages where members names are listed. The chairman of the Senate committee is Senator Tom Apodaca from Hendersonville. Chairman of the House committee is Tim Moore of Kings Mountain.

Please contact as many of these members as you can to express your concern with the gross imbalance in membership on the BOG and your desire for them to begin immediately correcting this long-standing problem. Even if every member appointed this year were a graduate of NC State, it would not come close to erasing the imbalance, but it would be a good start. The important thing is to let them know that a lot of voters care about this situation and expect them to correct it.

Phone calls work best, but use emails if you don't have time to call.

Senate

House

ExPatPacker wrote: Perhaps it would be helpful to suggest some suitable candidates.  Anybody got some names?

NeverQuitPacker wrote:

ExPatPacker wrote: Perhaps it would be helpful to suggest some suitable candidates.  Anybody got some names?

Dr. Jerry Punch (previously served on NCSU BOT)
Dr. Jim Owens, retired CEO of Caterpillar
Bob Luddy, CEO of Captive-Aire & CEO of Thales Academies
Lonnie Poole, CEO of Waste Industries
manalishi

There's lots of other well qualified folk, just need some time to think about it.

manganese wrote: Treyvon

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Perhaps it would be helpful to suggest some suitable candidates.  Anybody got some names?

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lumberpack3 wrote:

NeverQuitPacker wrote:

ExPatPacker wrote: Perhaps it would be helpful to suggest some suitable candidates.  Anybody got some names?

Dr. Jerry Punch (previously served on NCSU BOT)
Dr. Jim Owens, retired CEO of Caterpillar
Bob Luddy, CEO of Captive-Aire & CEO of Thales Academies
Lonnie Poole, CEO of Waste Industries
manalishi

There's lots of other well qualified folk, just need some time to think about it.

Not every BOG member need be a North Carolina native.  Other States do this differently, but a non-UNC-CH member from Atlanta, New York, or Washington would be a help.

ExPatPacker wrote: Perhaps it would be helpful to suggest some suitable candidates.  Anybody got some names?

pootopolis wrote: lol @ this being pinned.

biggoodwolf wrote:

PackMan97 wrote: As a followup to this note, don't focus on NC State...focus instead on all of the UNC system schools being represented. Right now it's all Chapel Hill and hardly anyone else.

Great suggestion.

There currently are 33 members of the BOG. My view of a good distribution would be six to eight each affiliated with UNC-CH, six to eight affiliated with NC State, and six to eight affiliated with one of the other UNC schools. The rest should be well qualified people from business, industry and education who have no affiliation with the UNC system.

eccdogg wrote: Could someone who has them handy post the stats on college attended numbers for each university?

Also it looks like Senate link goes to House.