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By KATHERINE MANGAN S ix-figure incentive bonuses for coaches and athletic directors whose players excel on the field have long been a fixture in big-time college athletics. But unless those players are also cutting it in the classroom, the University System of Maryland will no longer pay out. The decision by the Maryland Board of Regents to tie athletic incentive bonuses to academic performance for new Division I coaches systemwide comes at a time of heightened scrutiny for athletics departments nationwide.
Concerns over academic fraud are nothing new, but the intensity ramped up considerably in October with the release, just two days before the Maryland decision, of a 136-page report detailing how athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had been steered into sham classes for nearly two decades. The revelation that so many advisers, professors, and administrators had either gone along with the scheme or looked the other way prompted a flurry of worried calls from regents on some campuses. Experts urged college officials to watch more closely for possible signs of academic fraud, including courses that cater disproportionately to athletes and indepe...
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings was selected as the next president of North Carolina’s public university system on Friday, with its governing board opting for the nonacademic with Republican political credentials.
Spellings, a protege of former President George W. Bush, was selected by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, which oversees 17 campuses enrolling more than 220,000 students.
Spellings will replace Tom Ross, a Democrat who was lavishly praised but pushed out by the governing board after members said they wanted a change they were unable to define. The university system’s flagship school, at Chapel Hill, is still grappling with a scandal in which athletes benefited from sham classes and artificially high grades for almost two decades.
Ross was scheduled to step down in January. Spellings’ contact starts in March. Her five-year contract will pay her a base salary of $775,000 a year, a nearly 30 percent increase over Ross.
In her initial comments after Friday’s vote, Spellings talked about the importance of ensuring quality education for all, especially poor and minority students.
“We must close the achievement gap at all levels,” she said.
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In taking the post, Pope had to step back from his daily duties as chief executive of Variety
Wholesalers, a retail empire built by his father that stretches from Ohio to Florida. He also
gave up his position on the board of Americans for Prosperity,the national conservative
advocacy group backed by the Kochs.
But to those who have long known Pope — who made an unsuccessful bid for lieutenant
governor between his staggered legislative terms — the move made perfect sense.
Pope “has been working all of his life to get in a position of influence in North Carolina,”
said state Rep. Robert Brawley (R), a 20year veteran of the General Assembly.
When he heard the news of Pope’s appointment, Brawley recalled, he thought to himself,
“Oh boy, my buddy Art is in position.”
UNC budget
Pope’s relationship with the University of North Carolina, a storied institution in the state,
shows how he wields influence through several roles simultaneously.
In late February, Pope fired off an unusual memo to the UNC leadership. In his threepage
letter, he chided the university system for not providing a “realistic” budget request for the
coming year, saying it would require cutting into money for courts, public schools and
health care.
To critics, the episode showed Pope using his clout to carry out a longstanding personal
agenda. As a legislator, he repeatedly pounced on what he viewed as wasteful UNC
spending, complaining that administrative funds were spent on Palm Pilots and gourmet
pizza. Since then, think tanks backed by his family foundation — particularly the John
William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy — have regularly criticized the
management of the university.
Chris Fitzsimon, founder and executive director of NC Policy Watch, a liberal think tank,
called Pope’s memo to UNC “extraordinary,” adding, “No budget director before Art Pope
would have done that on their own.”
Pope said his actions were not personal, adding that the memo had been approved by the
governor and had the backing of legislative leaders.
The university said it was seeking to retain some cost savings and restore some previous
cuts, and it offered to set aside a request for new construction funds.
That, however, still was not enough.McCrory’s new budget proposed reducing UNC’s net
funding by $47 million, roughly 2 percent of its budget. Among the suggested cuts were
research centers deemed “not central to the educational mission.”
McCrory said that while Pope had raised some questions about UNC’s budget, the
reductions were his call. “I made the final decision,” the governor said.
At the same time he has weighed in on UNC’s state funding, Pope and his family have
given the flagship Chapel Hill campus millions of dollars through their foundation to
support athletics and underwrite classes in politics, economics and Western civilization.
Most recently, the Pope Foundation donated $1.3 million in April to endow a
professorship and grant program at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
“Your giving makes a real difference in our work and in the lives of others,” UNCChapel
Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt wrote to Pope after the gift.
Two months earlier, the recently arrived chancellor had an introductory meeting with
Pope in his capacity as budget director in which they discussed the university’s finances,
according to correspondence obtained through a publicrecords request.
In a followup letter to Pope, Folt wrote that she was “committed to regularly assessing
university operations to ensure that Carolina remains as efficient and effective as
possible.”
Pope’s presence is felt acutely on the Chapel Hill campus, where some faculty members
say school officials are fearful of antagonizing a longtime critic who now holds sway over
the university’s funding.
They point to an incident last fall, when UNC took steps to distance itself from a professor
at its law school, Gene Nichol, after he drew fire from Popebacked think tanks for a
newspaper column in which he compared McCrory to Southern segregationist governors.
The heads of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and the Civitas Institute
responded with their own piece, saying Nichol’s “nastiness and increasingly unhinged
partisanship ... reflects an arrogance and radicalism that have been building for years.”
Civitas also filed a publicrecords request for six weeks’ worth of Nichol’s emails, phone
records and calendars, eventually obtaining more than 1,000 pages of materials.
Amid the controversy, UNC officials exchanged alarmed emails noting how much
Nichol’s piece had angered the governor and his supporters, according to documents first
reported on by the Raleigh News & Observer.
The university now requires Nichol, director of UNCChapel Hill’s Center on Poverty,
Work and Opportunity, to include a disclaimer at the bottom of his columns reading, “He
doesn’t speak for UNC.”
Nichol said in an interview that the disclaimer was “a continual reminder that we have a
provost and chancellor more fearful of Art Pope than they are of protecting freedom of
speech.”
In a statement,James W. Dean Jr., UNCChapel Hill’s executive vice chancellor and
provost, said the university vigorously protects First Amendment rights and called the
disclaimer consistent with UNC’s academicfreedom policies.
Still, Dean hinted at the careful political tightrope being walked by the university.
“We have a very close and collaborative working relationship with many state government
officials, including Mr. Pope in his role as State Budget Director,” Dean said. “We have
worked hard to demonstrate the critical role our public universities play in securing North
Carolina’s economic future and will continue to do so.”
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