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BOG Personnel Authority Initiative
Update: The Guiding Principles were approved by the Board of Governors on April 13, 2012. See below for the text of the approved version.
In 2011, the General Assembly asked UNC General Administration (GA) to look at ways to increase operational effectiveness and efficiency across the University system. General Administration developed several proposals that met this criterion and presented those to legislative leaders.
One of those proposals is to consolidate all University system employees under the authority of the UNC System Board of Governors (BOG). This is a departure from the current system, where SPA employees are under the authority of the State Personnel Act as overseen by the State Personnel Commission and Office of State Personnel, while EPA employees (both faculty and non-faculty) are under BOG authority.
The intent of this proposal is to simplify personnel administration for all of the UNC campuses by providing consolidated authority for personnel matters under a single body, the BOG, and to provide the university system with the ability to tailor its personnel programs in a way that better responds to the unique needs of higher education, which would benefit both employees and the individual campuses.
General Administration's overview of the proposal (see below) was shared with the Governor, legislative leaders, the system-wide Faculty Senate, and system-wide Staff Assembly leaders, as well as the UNC-Chapel Hill Employee Forum.
Have a question about this proposal? Send an email to hr-personnel-flexibility@unc.edu. Please note that we will not directly answer each submitted question; however, all questions will be considered for addition to a Frequently Asked Questions document, as the information becomes available.
Additional Information
April 13, 2012: Guiding Principles for Unified University Personnel System (approved by Board of Governors)
April 10, 2012: Revised Draft Guiding Principles for Unified University Personnel System (with summary statement; provided by General Administration)
April 3, 2012: Revised Draft Guiding Principles for Unified University Personnel System (with clarifications; provided by General Administration)
April 2, 2012: Feedback on Draft Guiding Principles (collected by OHR and provided to General Administration per their request)
Feb. 9, 2012: Draft Guiding Principles for Unified University Personnel System (provided by General Administration)
2011 Overview of Personnel Flexibility Proposal (provided by General Administration)
2011 Overview of Personnel Flexibility Proposal (provided by General Administration)
2011 Frequently Asked Questions document (provided by General Administration)
Follow Senate Bill 575 (Higher Education Efficiency and Flexibility) (links externally to NC General Assembly website)
University Gazette article on UNC System President Tom Ross's visit to Employee Forum to discuss personnel authority
