WataugaWatch: UNC Board of Governors Continue Their Pattern of Violating Open Meeting Laws

Friday, October 30, 2015

Today, a 5-hour meeting of the Board of Governors, most of it conducted behind closed doors, appears to have violated the state's open meeting laws. The board reportedly took votes in secret that are supposed to be done in the light of day.

This only continues what has become a pattern for the BOG, outlined in some detail by WRAL reporter Mark Binker.

UPDATE
UNC BOG gave raises to two different university chancellors but refused to say who or how much of a raise ... in the same year that most faculty received nothing.

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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