Gov. Bev Perdue has weighed in again on the Wake County school diversity fight, saying she is worried about the negative impact "The Colbert Report" segment may have on North Carolina's image.

In a meeting Thursday with the Greensboro News & Record editorial board, Perdue said she's concerned all the national publicity may cause businesses not to come to the state. She also complained that schools shouldn't "stuff all the poor kids in one school and all the rich kids in another school."

“Now, I’ll tell you, on the other question about the school system, I was unhappy we were on Colbert, watching what was YouTubed around the world," Perdue said. "I was unhappy about that and this morning I read the comments from the executive director of the Raleigh-Wake Chamber of Commerce and I read that Harvey [Schmitt] said this is not good because if this stuff keeps getting said about Raleigh and not so much Charlotte but Wake County, if you’re a business leader, you don’t want to come in to an area that schools are in disarray.”

Perdue on AmEx, Wake County from Mark Binker on Vimeo.

Greensboro College is in so much debt that it has put its campus and much of its endowment up as collateral.

According to the Greensboro News & Record, the campus has $19 million debt.

Its president recently retired and local land records show the college renegotiated a $16 million loan in December with Bank of America by collateralizing parts of the campus including the president's residence.

Here's the story.

North Carolina A & T University has moved quickly to find a replacement for Chancellor Stanley Battle, whose abrupt announcement in February that he planned to step down caught the institution by surprise.

The UNC system's Board of Governors has called a special meeting for tomorrow morning where they will name Battle's replacement. The university system hasn't said who it will be, but the Greensboro News & Record reports that it will be Harold Martin, currently the UNC system's vice president for academic planning.

Martin has a wealth of campus experience and a well of support within the university system. A N.C. A&T alum with two degrees from there, he chaired that institution's electrical engineering department, was the engineering dean and served as vice chancellor for academic affairs  before leaving in 2000 to become chancellor at Winston-Salem State University. 

He held that post until 2006.

Among his more recent roles, Martin chaired a UNC system task force that examined - in the wake of racist graffiti discovered at N.C. State - whether the university should have a policy on hate crimes.

At UNC Greensboro, Tuesday's installation for Chancellor Linda Brady is being scaled back significantly to save money.

To that end - there will be no fancy cake made by some fancy cake-maker. The campus cafeteria will take care of it. Also, a planned buffet lunch for 1,600 will instead be punch and dessert.

And student government will distribute daisy seeds - the school flower - rather than commemorative mugs and T-shirts.

The bash should run about $22,000, according to this report in the Greensboro News & Record. 

By comparison - At UNC Chapel Hill last year, the installation for Chancellor Holden Thorp ran $162,000, paid for by non-state funds.

N.C. A & T Chancellor Stanley Battle's abrupt resignation announcement this week may have been due to fundamental differences he had with members of the campus community.

The Greensboro News & Record reports today that Battle may have been clashing with some over his desire to raise standards on campus.

Here's the story.

A computer security breach at UNC Greensboro may have implications for about 275 students and employees - far fewer than the university first thought.

This from the Greensboro News & Record.

According to the report, a computer virus originating in the campus accounting office may have put the names and social security numbers of those 275 people at risk. At first, officials thought the number was closer to 2,500, the story reports.

UNCG set up a website to address questions. Here it is.

In Guilford County, a prosecutor has decided not to pursue charges against James Renick, the former chancellor at North Carolina A & T University.

Renick left the Greensboro institution two years ago amid questions over the misuse of hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money.

As the Greensboro News & Record reports, Guilford County District Attorney Doug Henderson has concluded that neither Renick nor a program manager, Anna Anita Huff, violated any laws.

Henderson asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into the issue after a state auditor's report found nearly $400,000 from a vending account had been transferred to Renick's discretionary account.