State law: UNC Press leader can stay on despite opposition from UNC Board of Governors

[TexasTowelie]

Conservatives on UNC BOG want to remove Prof. Eric Muller, but legal experts say they lack the authority to do so


In a high-stakes game of political poker with the UNC Board of Governors, a state statute may provide the UNC Press with a trump card.

As Policy Watch first reported last month, the UNC Board of Governors refused to reelect UNC law professor Eric Muller to the governing board of the UNC Press.

The nonprofit press was established in 1922 as the first university press in the South and one of the first in the nation. Its mission is to advance “the research, teaching, and public service missions of a great public university by publishing excellent work from leading scholars, writers, and intellectuals and by presenting that work to both academic audiences and general readers.”

Under UNC Press bylaws, the group’s board members are elected through a process in which a slate of nominees is selected by the UNC Press board and that slate is then transmitted to the UNC Board of Governors, which is charged with formally electing them. The bylaws specify that a board member may serve up to three successive five-year terms.

Read more: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/07/29/state-law-unc-press-leader-can-stay-on-despite-opposition-from-unc-board-of-governors/

[spooky3]

1. The BOG seems determined to ruin the reputation of a

great university.