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U of North Carolina cuts strings on golden parachutes for top administrators

Charlotte Observer: UNC system clamps down on leave pay

Chancellors had been taking long leaves at full salary, and then retiring or taking new jobs.

CHAPEL HILL The UNC Board of Governors has revised a policy that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on UNC administrators who were supposed to return to teaching but instead retired, took other jobs or were eased out of their jobs.

Campus chancellors – and the UNC system president – will now get a six-month leave after stepping down at a salary comparable to what other faculty members in their academic departments earn. Previously, the “retreat rights” policy allowed a year of leave at the full administrative salary.

U. of North Carolina Campuses Under Fresh Scrutiny for Hiring Practices

The Chronicle: U. of North Carolina Campuses Under Fresh Scrutiny for Hiring Practices

State lawmakers and a state employees’ association are expressing concern about the University of North Carolina system’s hiring practices in response to a newspaper investigation showing that some of the system’s campuses often hire people without formal searches. The Asheville Citizen-Times gathered data on the campuses’ hirings since 2007 and found that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University had each made more than 300 permanent hires without searches during that time. North Carolina State was recently rocked by a controversy over its hiring of the wife of a former governor without a search.