UNCG Votes To Cut Two Centers

Two UNC centers in the Triad are slated to close. The UNC-Greensboro board of trustees made this decision at their board meeting Thursday.

Those two centers are the Center for Educational Research and Evaluation and the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts. Neither center has a budget nor a staff, gets state funding nor has any contracts or grants affiliated with it.

According to the Greensboro News and Record, the educational research center was founded in 1980. UNCG officials said the center's work will move elsewhere within the education school. The emphasis of the Creative-writing Center, established in 2005, will be handled by a new research network in the art department supporting artists who work with the written word.

The UNCG board voted for these closures after the UNC system completed a February review of all 240 academic centers in their system. These two were initially listed for possible closing, but avoided the final cut by the UNC system.