TO THE EDITOR:
Last Friday, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported that the UNC system would, at the behest of new president Margaret Spellings, fork over $1.1 million to the Boston Consulting Group for an “analysis” of the UNC system.
What the N&O glossed over is that Spellings has been on BCG’s payroll; she was listed as a senior adviser.
This “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” transaction is a betrayal of North Carolina’s taxpayers. What’s more, BCG already laid out its vision for higher education in a policy brief published on its website in April of 2014: slash departments and move more courses online.
Need we pay them a million dollars to repackage those conclusions in a fancy binder?
Sam Shaw
Senior History
