UNC-system President Erskine Bowles is continuing to promote a lower tuition increase for system schools than the increase proposed by the N.C. General Assembly.
Bowles’ recommendations match the ones created by individual campuses in the last few months. All are less than the tuition increase mandated by the N.C. General Assembly at the close of its 2009 session.
At its monthly meeting today, the budget and finance committee of the UNC-system Board of Governors is expected to authorize Bowles’ recommendations.
Bowles’ 2010-11 recommended tuition increases:
UNC-Chapel Hill
Resident: up $200 to $4,065 (5.2%)
Non-resident: up $927 to $22,680 (4.3%)
N.C. State
Resident: up $150 to $4,103 (3.8%)
Non-resident: up $200 to $16,638 (1.2%)
ECU
Resident: up $90 to$2,581(3.6%)
Non-resident: up $880 to $14,205 (6.6%)
N.C. A&T
Resident: up $110 to $2,104 (5.5%)
Non-resident: up $110 to $11,546 (1%)
UNC-Charlotte
Resident: up $103 to $2,619 (4.1%)
Non-resident: up $538 to $13,666 (4.1%)
UNC-Greensboro
Resident: up $168 to $2,758 (6.5%)
Non-resident: up $168 to $14,519 (1.2%)
Appalachian State
Resident: up $152 to $2,493 (6.5%)
Non-resident: up $843 to $13,805 (6.5%)
Fayetteville State
Resident: up $124 to $2,029 (6.5%)
Non-resident: up $245 to $12,493 (2%)
N.C. Central
Resident: up $113 to $2,377 (5%)
Non-resident: up $617 to $12,950 (5%)
UNC-Pembroke
Resident: up $113 to $2,173 (5.5%)
Non-resident: up $113 to $11,380 (1%)
UNC-Wilmington
Resident: up $52 to $2,617 (2%)
Non-resident: up $269 to $13,716 (2%)
Western Carolina
Resident: up $137 to $2,243 (6.5%)
Non-resident: up $137 to $11,840 (1.2%)
Winston-Salem State
Resident: up$115 to $1,884 (6.5%)
Non-resident: up $115 to $10,870 (1.1%)
UNC-Asheville
Resident: up $155 to $2,544 (6.5%)
Non-resident: up $917 to $15,023 (6.5%)
Elizabeth City State
Resident: up $109 to $1,790 (6.5%)
Non-resident: up $697 to $11,427 (6.5%)
UNC School of the Arts
Resident: up $200 to $3,557 (6%)
Non-resident: up $612 to $15,915 (4%)
The legislature established tuition increases in August 2009 for the UNC system that are the lesser of $200 or 8 percent of the 2009-10 amount.
But Bowles has expressed hope that the legislature will replace its mandated increase with the alternative increases recommended by him, assuming they are approved by the Board of Governors.
Bowles also is asking the legislature to return tuition revenue to the campuses.
The average school’s tuition increase based on the legislative mandate is 7.2 percent, or $180. The average increase proposal from UNC campuses is 5.2 percent, or $131.
If the committee approves the tuition increases, it will go to the full board Friday for a vote and then on to the legislature.
