For UNC-CH, Bain report brings some pub

UNC Chapel Hill's hiring of a corporate efficiency consultant last year was, at first, controversial on campus.

The on-campus furor over the hire, which was funded by an anonymous donor, seems to have subsided, and now the university is getting some good publicity for the move.

First, other big-name universities, like Cornell and Berkeley, followed Carolina's lead. And now, the New York Times has chimed in with a story noting, as the Times likes to do, a  trend in the making: universities turning to private consultants to look for cost savings.

Here's the story.