For years, top brass across the UNC system have received a tidy perk at the time of their retirement - a year's pay at their full salary.

Under a UNC system policy formalized several years ago, the heads of public university campuses and an array of other administrators have received this pay - all public money - with very few strings attached. And in some cases, campuses violated policy and gave it to people who shouldn't have received it.

In the News & Observer today, we explore this issue, which has tapped the North Carolina taxpayer for about $8 million over the last five years.

For a brief summary of many of the high-profile folks who benefitted from this policy - including former UNC system President Molly Broad and others - click here.

And for a look at what one former university leader - former UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser - did after stepping away from the job - check out this story.

N.C. Central University has hired another Indiana University administrator.

Coincidence? Perhaps not.

NCCU Chancellor Charlie Nelms arrived in Durham last summer from Bloomington, Ind., where he was working as an administrator within the Indiana University system. He soon set about crafting a new leadership cabinet. Earlier this year, he moved Provost Beverly Washington Jones out of that position.

This week, he named her successor. He is Kwesi Aggrey, who comes from Indiana University's Northwest campus.

A native of Ghana, Aggrey was the vice chancellor for academic affairs at that campus.