UNC trustees’ push for ‘School of Civic Life and Leadership’ alarms some faculty

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Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill want to accelerate a School of Civic Life and Leadership, an idea hailed in some conservative media.

“This is actually worse,” Holden Thorp, a former chancellor of the university,

The resolution set a goal for the school of a minimum of 20 dedicated faculty positions, and the ability to grant degrees. But trustees can’t create classes, appoint professors or create degrees, Thorp said; they can approve some of those things, but only on the recommendation of the administration.“They put the chancellor in a very awkward position,” Thorp said. “I think he wrote the only statement that he could write without resigning.

In the faculty meeting held virtually Monday, Guskiewicz told attendees he wanted to “correct some of the media reports you may have heard. Faculty cannot and will not be hired based on their political views or ideological beliefs for such a school.” They never have been at UNC, he said, “and never will be.”

He said those skills would apply across the spectrum of professions. “Let’s say you’re selling widgets, okay? … And the person who is the buyer of the widgets may have a political view … And during a lunch, he or she expresses that political view and it is opposite of yours. Okay.

 

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Ironically that is a very liberal idea championed by the so-called ‘Conservative media’. If only liberals still existed in the far-left authoritarian ranks of todays Democrat Party, their media & universities. unc tarheels

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