Openness and A&T
I am mystified at the thinking behind A&T's decision not to release the audit report. The school refused to provide it to us, calling it working papers. It clearly was a public document, which the UNC system affirmed when officials in Chapel Hill gave it to us.
Given how bad the findings are, I understand that A&T would like them to remain inside a file cabinet. but officials there surely couldn't think the audit would go away. I suppose it's naive to think that an academic institution would be more open than, say, a government. Maybe because that search for knowledge thing. But I'm obviously wrong here.
We traditionally have difficulty getting information of this sort from A&T. I guess that where there isn't a culture of openness and transparency, this is the norm. A shame. Now the new chancellor, Stanley Battle, moves from one school with a negative audit to another.