And the partisan underpinnings are plainly visible:
Senate leader Phil Berger, an Eden Republican, said the concept originated with citizens who wanted to leverage university expertise to address state and local policy challenges. The collaboratory “was fleshed out and refined” through conversations with the UNC chancellor’s office, he said in an email.
“I have received numerous complaints about the existing philosophical and partisan homogeneity at UNC, where professors registered as Democrats outnumber Republicans by a ratio of roughly 12 to one,” Berger’s email said. “On several occasions I have recommended highly-qualified conservative candidates for positions at UNC and within the university system, and, to my knowledge, none have been hired to date.”
So your solution for that "imbalance" is to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to create an entity friendly to Conservative views and scholarship(?), and use that entity to give credibility to ineffective or counterproductive environmental policies. Gotcha. And who were these "citizens" who supposedly thought this up in the first place? I don't expect an answer to that question any time soon. If they actually exist outside of fiction, we likely won't be able to figure that out until the Center starts cranking out "research." But we'll be watching. Until then, here's what could be a warning:
http://ift.tt/2bcBNSE
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