UNC System News (Now SCiLL gets Un-Civil, dookies go authoritarian)

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Correction the amended bill made it out of the Education/Higher Education Committee and was sent to the Committee on Appropriations (If that means there will be some funding for the hiring of adjuncts and faculty development that is great news) with the addition noted below:


Apparently in committee yesterday "George Washington's Farewell Address" was added to the list of required documents.

The Constitution of the United States of America
The Declaration of Independence
At least five essays from the Federalist Papers
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and
The North Carolina State Constitution.

Bill H 7 (2025-2026)
Summary date: Apr 2 2025 - View Summary
House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.

Amends proposed GS 116-11.5, concerning requirement of American history or American government instruction for a baccalaureate degree, by including George Washington’s Farewell Address in the documents students must read. Requires that the UNC Board of Governors remove one elective course requirement to account for this requirement.

Amends proposed GS 115D-11, concerning requirement of American history or American government instruction for an associate degree, by including George Washington’s Farewell Address in the documents students must read. Requires that the State Board of Community Colleges remove one elective course requirement to account for this requirement. Instead of allowing removal of the president of a community college for failure to comply with the statute over more than one academic year, allows the withdrawal or withholding of State financial and administrative support for a community college that does not comply for more than one academic year and specifies that this noncompliance also constitutes noncompliance under GS 115D-6.5 (requiring boards of trustees of the community colleges to comply with applicable State laws, rules, and sound fiscal and management practices).

Amends GS 115C-81.45 by adding George Washington’s Farewell Address to the documents high school students must read as part of the course satisfying the Founding Principles of the US and the State of NC course requirements.
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Education, Higher Education, Government, State Agencies, Community Colleges System Office, UNC System
GS 115C, GS 115D, GS 116
 
gtyellowjacket said:
UNC Provost out. This was the conservative guy that set up the School for Civic Engagement. No word on why.

www.unc.edu

Message about Provost and Chief Academic Officer Chris Clemens | UNC-Chapel Hill

Clemens will step down as provost and return to Carolina's faculty in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, Chancellor Lee H. Roberts wrote in a campus message.
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Thanks for the link
Hopefully the new Provost will not be some ideological nut. My hopes are not high
 
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From April 9, 2024


AT CAROLINA: "In a 2017 email, Christopher Clemens, current provost and then-senior associate dean of natural sciences and mathematics, expressed his and the administration's interest in a conservative program on campus to Robert George, director of Princeton University's James Madison Program. "I have been among the most outspoken conservative members of the Art & Sciences faculty at UNC for many years, sponsoring the College Republicans, the Carolina Review, and several other student organizations," he said in the email. "I am currently the senior associate dean of natural sciences and am intrigued to learn of our administration's interest in housing a conservative center on campus."

www.dailytarheel.com

'Original strife' to spring sign-ups: How the School of Civic Life and Leadership came to be

Emails obtained by The Daily Tar Heel reveal the initial stages, going back to 2017, of developing a civil discourse program — initially called the Program in Civic Virtue and Civil Discourse — that would later give way to the School of Civil Life and Leadership.
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nycfan said:
Quite a story. Reminds me of the quote attributed to Kissinger about academic fights being so vicious because the stakes are so small.
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The article actually mentions that assertion but points out that in this case the $$$$ is actually huge.
 
www.realclearinvestigations.com

In North Carolina, College Reformers Have Met the Enemy and It Is ... Them

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Like the other programs launched at universities around the country to revive the classical liberal arts and America’s founding principles, the University of North Carolina&r
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"It is often said that academic turf battles are so vicious because the stakes are so low. The contretemps in North Carolina illustrates a deeper reality: Disputes over power and money in the ivory tower can make or break academic careers."
 
donbosco said:
And one year later…

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I've said this before, but the one saving grace of modern right-wingers is that they hate and despise one another almost as much as they do liberals and minorities. Their infighting is likely one of the factors that has prevented things up to this point from being worse than they already are, if that's possible.
 
donbosco said:
The article actually mentions that assertion but points out that in this case the $$$$ is actually huge.
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The $$$ is huge for academia … but I missed the reference in my skim (or maybe subconsciously caught it?)
 
Mulberry Heel said:
I've said this before, but the one saving grace of modern right-wingers is that they hate and despise one another almost as much as they do liberals and minorities. Their infighting is likely one of the factors that has prevented things up to this point from being worse than they already are, if that's possible.
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Agreed on the right-wing self-hating but I've had quite enough experiences with leftist infighting, backstabbing, and identity-battles over the years that I have seldom found solidarity over a common cause anything to take for granted. It has happened often enough in my life that I've had pause to just chuck it all and go free lance (and have on occasion).
 
I’ll add that on occasion I have been very fortunate in regard to solidarity and dedication to a cause (Central America for example almost always).
 
donbosco said:
Agreed on the right-wing self-hating but I've had quite enough experiences with leftist infighting, backstabbing, and identity-battles over the years that I have seldom found solidarity over a common cause anything to take for granted. It has happened often enough in my life that I've had pause to just chuck it all and go free lance (and have on occasion).
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Agreed, I certainly didn't mean to imply that left-wingers aren't self-destructive and fight with each other like cats and dogs, but given that right-wingers seem to be dominating our political process right now I'm all for them fighting with one another.
 
donbosco said:
Agreed on the right-wing self-hating but I've had quite enough experiences with leftist infighting, backstabbing, and identity-battles over the years that I have seldom found solidarity over a common cause anything to take for granted. It has happened often enough in my life that I've had pause to just chuck it all and go free lance (and have on occasion).
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When intellectual movements aren't grounded in reality, there is no actual way to resolve disputes. There's nothing that will come along and sort out who is right and who's not.

In the 60s and 70s, the irrationality and reality-denying came from leftists who talked about anarcho-syndicalism; economics being the science of imperialism; etc. And how does a socialist who believes in large state enterprises argue with an anarcho-syndicalist. Neither of them are demonstrably wrong because their ideas won't be implemented anywhere (and even if they were, it would probably be insufficiently pure to count). So they fight and squabble

Now it's the right-wing that deals in unreality. So they stab each other because there are no other options. Eventually reality will poke its head in the door, and there will be fallout from it temporarily, but then probably they will go back to their alternative reality.
 
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