Doing the Impossible
Erskine Bowles should receive the “Magician of the Year” award. He’s just about done the impossible. Usually, anyone (much less the President of the UNC System) who proposes cutting the universities’ budgets, (News & Observer, 7-9-07), faces a public lynching from outraged faculty – who view every penny spent (except on basketball) on their campuses as a sacred cow.
But Bowles has somehow proposed cutting $440 million in waste from the UNC System and “streamlined the bureaucracy” (including cutting 15 positions on his own staff) without being tarred and feathered (Charlotte Observer, 7-9-07).
There’s been some grumbling by professors who say he’s trying to run a university like a business. And from the governor. But, right now, it looks like Erskine Bowles’ not getting elected to the United States Senate may be the best thing that’s happened to higher education in North Carolina in years.
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Doing the Impossible
Erskine Bowles should receive the “Magician of the Year” award. He’s just about done the impossible. Usually, anyone (much less the President of the UNC System) who proposes cutting the universities’ budgets, (News & Observer, 7-9-07), faces a public lynching from outraged faculty – who view every penny spent (except on basketball) on their campuses as a sacred cow.
But Bowles has somehow proposed cutting $440 million in waste from the UNC System and “streamlined the bureaucracy” (including cutting 15 positions on his own staff) without being tarred and feathered (Charlotte Observer, 7-9-07).
There’s been some grumbling by professors who say he’s trying to run a university like a business. And from the governor. But, right now, it looks like Erskine Bowles’ not getting elected to the United States Senate may be the best thing that’s happened to higher education in North Carolina in years.
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