Hugh Stevens Comments on Search for UNC-CH Chancellor

“My philosophy is if you’re one of the three finalists to be the chancellor of the University of North Carolina and you’re embarrassed to have your name known, then you aren’t the right person for the job in the first place,” Stevens said.

He said too often search committees at public universities skirt the open meetings law by adjourning meetings and then reconvening them at a later date, never giving notice to the media.

“The idea that they don’t give any notice of their meetings, they don’t take any vote in public, it’s all done under cloak of darkness,” Stevens said. “I just think it’s wrong. I think the reason that our law doesn’t seem as onerous is that our search committees ignore it.”