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North Carolina public university board has emergency meeting

10/26/18, 04:14

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 23, 2015, file photo, Margaret Spellings, president of the North Carolina public university system, makes comments after being elected by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors in Chapel Hill, N.C. North Carolina’s public university board is holding an emergency session amid news reports that Spellings is leaving as president of the state’s 17-campus system. In a statement, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors said it would hold an emergency session Friday morning, Oct. 26, 2018, to “consider an executive personnel matter.” (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

North Carolina’s public university board is holding an emergency session amid news reports that Margaret Spellings is leaving as president of the state’s 17-campus system.

In a statement, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors said it would hold an emergency session Friday morning to “consider an executive personnel matter.”

A spokesman for Spellings, the former U.S. education secretary, did not respond to calls, emails or text messages Thursday.

Spellings is halfway through the five-year contract she started in March 2016.

The former member of President George W. Bush’s cabinet was selected after the Republican-majority North Carolina university board forced out her predecessor, who got the job under Democratic control.

Some power brokers in the Republican-dominated state legislature saw her national reputation as giving her too much independence.

Source: The Associated Press