Consultants (BCG) will study UNC prior to Spellings start, thanks to anonymous $1.1 M donation

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Boston Consulting Group was hired in December through the UNC Foundation, with money from an anonymous donor. Work got under way in earnest this week, as consultants began interviews with more than 100 people, including UNC Board of Governors members, chancellors, financial officers, faculty leaders, student leaders and legislators.

“Like any new leader, I want to make sure that if we’re going to play NFL ball – it’s the term I keep using – we need to make sure we have the best players fielded on the team, internally,” Spellings said in a telephone interview Friday.

According to a contract released to The News & Observer, the eight-week study will be an in-depth examination of the UNC General Administration – a 200-employee operation that handles budgeting, human resources, academic affairs and other functions for the 17-campus system. Consultants will assess the operation against legislative mandates and strategic priorities for the state’s public university system. They will then develop a “high-level plan to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in each core General Administration function,” the contract said.

The study was Spellings’ idea. The first step, she said, is to get input “from our various customers and users,” including campuses, legislators, the business community, boards of trustees and others.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article53812025.html



Here is the comment I posted in response to the article:

Boston Consulting Group is where Mitt Romney got his start. It's all about business strategy. This is the problem with Republicans: they think everything needs to be run like a "business" rather than understanding that education (and health care) is not all about the bottom line.

The only way to stop the dismantling of the UNC system that this Rovian/Bush bot has been hired to do is to get out and VOTE in 2016. Change the composition of the NC Legislature, which will in turn eventually change the Board of Governors and ultimately get rid of Spellings. If we don't get out and vote, we can kiss the UNC system good-bye. Sad times coming.