Thomas Warren Ross Sr. was the president of the University of North Carolina system. He succeeded Erskine Bowles on January 1, 2011. Before becoming president of the University of North Carolina he was president of Davidson College, a private North Carolina Liberal arts college, from August 1, 2007 to January 1, 2011.
Ross is from Greensboro, North Carolina, and graduated from Davidson College in 1972.http://www.northcarolina.edu/?q=news/2010/08/tom-ross-elected-president-university-north-carolina
While President of the UNC system Ross managed several crisis that largely revolved around The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Those crises included:
- Allegations from two former UNC-Chapel Hill students, Andrea Pino and Annie E. Clark, alleging the University severely underreported and mis-adjudicated hundreds of cases of sexual assault and a resulting investigation by the United States Department of Educationhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrea-pino/unc-sexual-assault-_b_2497326.html
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Allegations that UNC Chapel-Hill was engaged in a “long-running academic fraud scandal, including a lack of institutional control and poor oversight of an academic department popular with athletes.” Allegations that later lead to NCAA sanctions. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-north-carolina-ncaa-20150604-story.html
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Pressure from the Board of Governors to justify the existence of many of UNC Chapel-Hill’s centers and institutes and the possibility of closing the Sonja Hayes Stone Center for Black Culture and History and the Women’s Center. http://college.usatoday.com/2014/12/10/unc-students-fighting-to-save-funding/
On January 16, 2015 Tom Ross was forced to resign his position as president of the University of North Carolina system. The decision was met with outrage as many suggested the UNC Board of Governors was operating with a political agenda in mind when firing Ross. He was succeeded by Margaret Spellings.
