Bowles' retirement

Editorial
(Greensboro) News & Record
February 13, 2010

Erskine Bowles has been UNC president for only four years, and, in an announcement on Friday, said that was enough. The 64-year-old Greensboro native will retire as UNC's fourth president by the end of 2010 -- or until the Board of Governors finds his replacement. That won't be easy.

A former White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton, Bowles took the UNC job largely at the urging of state Republicans, who admired his tenacity, his business savvy and his ability to work across the aisle to get things done.  He did not disappoint. On his watch, the UNC system has become more focused, accountable and forward-thinking.  Click here to read more.