Predictably, there has been a good deal of rage from the left over the School of Civic Life and Leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill. It won’t help advance the statist agenda of subjecting America to comprehensive government control, so the faculty zealots are throwing a tantrum. They don’t think anything in the university should be out of their grasp.

In today’s Martin Center article, Dr. Perrin Jones, a member of the university’s board of trustees, explains why the claims that the formation of the school is somehow unauthorized and contravenes university procedures are false.

He writes, “The idea for the new school’s pro-democracy curriculum goes back years — and has involved faculty input from the beginning, contrary to the false narrative perpetuated by political partisans and other opponents of free and open learning and debate on campus.”

Both UNC’s chancellor (a lefty) and its provost (who is not), are on board with the formation of the new school. University procedures have been followed all along.

Jones believes, “The fevered and disingenuous opposition to an initiative steeped in classically liberal traditions of free inquiry and civil debate — and twice approved by the faculty — proves convincingly the need for just such a program at UNC-Chapel Hill.”

Read the whole thing.