The UNC system's governing board is not united behind reducing the paid leaves campus chancellors get when they step down.
A UNC Board of Governors committee Thursday recommended reducing research leaves - which also go to the UNC system president - from one year to six months.
The full board won't act until January, though, and Friday some members said research leaves are a vital part of the total compensation package. Limiting them could hurt recruitment, they said.
"Our benefits: They'd have to improve to get bad," said Paul Fulton, a former UNC Chapel Hill trustee who recently joined the UNC system's board. "Reducing that leave from 12 months to six is not a good move."