New developments in the conservative move to reshape UNC

At a Wednesday meeting of a UNC Board of Governors task force, there was a long discussion of how to make meetings of the full board more efficient, more productive, with more “deliverables.” In short, as several members said repeatedly, the objective is to make it run more like a successful business.

Running the meeting was task force Chairman Tom Fetzer, the former N.C. Republican Party Chairman who was appointed to the board in March.

Along with a few former GOP state lawmakers appointed to the board in the last few years, Fetzer—who quoted combative conservative icon Margaret Thatcher at a full board meeting in September—is part of a new and especially conservative wing of the mostly Republican board that has made it clear it intends to shake things up.

Some of the suggestions found some pushback from a few board members and UNC system president Margaret Spellings.

Read more: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2017/10/05/new-developments-conservative-move-reshape-unc/