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

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7. If past practice is anything to go by they have already decided what they will do.

The research is just to identify specific programs and names of professors and others to eliminate or suborn. They intend to make over the UNC system along the lines of Liberty University. Art Pope has been trying to subvert UNC for decades. If they can it will be a very cruel effect. They will find ways to bind students and faculty in some kind of loyalty oath similar to "honor codes" of the 1950's.
They will be especially ruthless with programs that pursue "non-traditional" values and ideas, even though UNC has a very long tradition of exactly that kind of liberal arts tradition.

This is Art Pope's personal vendetta and he is one mean asshole. He has already succeeded in closing a range of nationally important research programs dealing with social justice and poverty. 1984 has arrived and "christian" newspeak will become the language and culture of UNC academics if he is not stopped.

There is a certain degree of independence within the system. Unless the voters turn enough tea-thuglicans out of the legislature and the state house it won't matter enough, that is unless the alumni start funding lawsuits along with football teams.