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College journalists, here’s a great story idea: Request your administrators’ schedules to generate story ideas – and helpful graphics – on where their actual priorities lie, not what they say is important.

The Student Press Law Center highlights a Daily Tar Heel graphic based on one key administrator’s schedule:

During the spring semester, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt visited the White House and spent more than 13 hours preparing to give a lecture on arsenic. She spent a significant portion of her time at meetings and dinners devoted to fundraising, and even had time to squeeze in “a lot” of sporting events. 

But among her meetings during the course of the semester, only 10.5 percent were devoted to interactions with students.

That’s less time than Folt spent in fundraising activities (10.7 percent) and only a bit more than she spent with faculty (9.8 percent). A whopping one-fifth of her schedule was consumed by “external” activities such as the White House visit and meetings with state leaders who control the purse strings at UNC. 

On the plus side for anyone who knows what a drag they can be, Folt spent only 2.9 percent of her time in committee meetings. She had 477 meetings of all kinds during the semester.

The SPLC has a great resource page for getting access to records of all kinds, from university foundations to campus athletic programs to crime reports. 

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