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Matt Hartman

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Higher Education Reporter at The Assembly

higher ed reporter for @TheAssemblyNC. other bylines, @newrepublic @ringer @jacobin. live crabs stay humble. [email protected]

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  • UNC-Chapel Hill Has Delayed Tenure Votes in Most Departments This Spring

    1 week ago | theassemblync.com | Erin Gretzinger |Matt Hartman

    Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision—or, rather, non-decision—on faculty tenure and promotion cases. At the board’s meeting in March, trustees delayed taking up personnel actions until the May meeting. Then during a closed-session meeting on May 22, the trustees approved 18 new tenure cases, promotions, and appointments.

  • Guilford College Debates How ‘Quakerly’ It Should Be

    3 weeks ago | theassemblync.com | Matt Hartman

    Guilford College had a mysterious money problem. Each year, the board of trustees would pass a budget, and each year revenue would fall significantly short of projections. “We’re like, ‘What is going on?’” said Jean Parvin Bordewich, who joined the board in 2023.

  • UNC Research Data Is Disappearing. This Team Is Trying To Save It

    1 month ago | theassemblync.com | Matt Hartman

    In the early days of the Trump administration, when the White House was “flooding the zone” with immigration actions, ending diversity programs, and yanking security clearances, a quieter change started to worry scientists around the country. A decades-long survey about behavioral risk factors, normally posted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, went offline. So did the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Demographic and Health Surveys and the CDC’s .

  • Mecklenburg County Democrats Chair Fights For Another Term

    1 month ago | theassemblync.com | Matt Hartman

    Most elections for county political party chair only matter to the most committed of party activists. Few make the news. But then, most county party chairs didn’t get glowing profiles in Politicoand The New York Times. Drew Kromer did. When he was elected chair of the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party in April 2023, Kromer was a 26-year-old politics nerd with ambition.

  • Before He Quit, UNC-CH’s Provost Was Involved in Messy Fight at School of Civic Life

    1 month ago | theassemblync.com | Matt Hartman

    Before Chris Clemens unexpectedly announced his resignation as UNC-Chapel Hill’s provost on April 3, he was embroiled in a contentious faculty battle over hiring at the university’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL), The Assembly has learned. Several professors have left the school over the past year, with some complaining SCiLL’s leadership inappropriately sidelined them as it hired more faculty.

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Matt Hartman
Matt Hartman @themhartman
15 May 25

RT @ewstephe: Guilford College faculty hatched a radical plan to run the school by Quaker-inspired councils. Some alumni say the college ne…

Matt Hartman
Matt Hartman @themhartman
15 May 25

RT @john_drescher: Amid its second financial crisis in five years, Guilford College faculty hatched a radical plan to run the school by Qua…

Matt Hartman
Matt Hartman @themhartman
15 May 25

i've got a big new story on guilford college's financial crisis today. it's got quakers, faculty trying to run the school by democratic council, and bond defaults. it might be my favorite story yet https://t.co/9fFQD77fiv