A committee of the Board of Higher Education has sent a proposed policy change on who colleges hire for outside legal counsel back to the drawing board.
The policy changes provide that – if a campus needs outside legal help, it should try to hire North Dakota lawyers – where possible and practical.
Board Legal Counsel Eric Olson told the Budget and Finance Committee – the policy would provide documentation on how and why those decisions were made.
Committee member Jeffry Volk objected to the policy. “It creates an environment where it’s far easier after the fact to throw darts at the decision maker than to try and understand the role of the decision maker was in when they made the decision in the first place.”
Volk said he feels the same way about other system policies.
But Olson said having documentation may stop some of those darts.
The NDUS Budget and Finance Committee sent the policy back for further work.
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