States look to centralized UNC system as model for cutting costs
Even as the UNC system struggles in the midst of economic instability, other states are looking to its centralized system as a guide to cutting costs.
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Even as the UNC system struggles in the midst of economic instability, other states are looking to its centralized system as a guide to cutting costs.
UNC-system President Thomas Ross recommended today that schools not increase in-state tuition and fees above 9.9 percent, which is lower than UNC-CH’s 11.4 percent increase proposal.
This Saturday, the UNC-system Association of Student Governments will hold a special meeting to talk about tuition. Given their abysmal track record for effectiveness, Saturday’s outcome isn’t very promising.
UNC-system President Thomas Ross said he will stand by the tuition increase parameters he set last week despite dissenting opinions from some students and administrators.
At least 20 former members of the UNC-system Board of Governors have signed a petition urging current board members against approving tuition hikes.
With today’s Board of Governors meeting, the long-running tuition debate will enter its final stages, at least for this year. What students and board members alike must keep in mind at this juncture, however, is that this isn’t really a debate, at least not in the traditional sense of the word.
The University’s Board of Trustees approved a 15.6 percent tuition hike for in-state students in November, despite vocal student protest.
In an effort to curb the effects of statewide budget cuts, UNC-system administrators are pushing for the expansion of online education — an initiative that will replace a failed seven-month project originally expected to cut costs.
Funding cuts to higher education have prompted many universities to compare themselves to their peers in order to ensure they aren’t losing their competitive edge.
UNC School of the Arts is the latest school attempting to take advantage of a new tuition policy that allows them to increase tuition well beyond the system’s mandated cap.
When Andrew McCarthy graduated from his New Jersey high school in 2009, he hoped to attend UNC-CH.
Tori Gill has been planning ahead.
Gov. Bev Perdue’s latest program, North Carolina Career and College Promise, marks an important step toward better career prospects for young North Carolinians. Its goal, to better prepare the state’s high school students to enter the workplace and higher education, may sound vague — but the plan provides concrete and realistic mechanisms for effecting this change.
For years, the UNC system has touted its high quality of education, and students from abroad have recently taken notice.
For UNC-system universities, an increase in student enrollment used to mean an increase in funding.
Offsetting budget cuts has spurred a divide between administrators, with some leaning toward substantial tuition increases and others calling for alternate forms of action.
Despite vehement student opposition, UNC administrators approved Thursday a 15.6 percent tuition hike proposal for in-state students.
The UNC system’s push to consolidate and streamline universities’ online education programs might still be in its early stages, but administrators already have one model to follow — an emerging foreign language consortium.
When the Board of Governors said in January that it was looking to root redundancies out of the UNC system, it should have meant it. Instead, the search for “unnecessary duplication” of degree programs went seven months without producing any concrete ways to cut programs or costs — and without defining “unnecessary program duplication,” which was supposed to form the basis of the review. As the UNC system confronts another year of budget cuts, it must take its efficiency more seriously before it aimlessly treks down another path, this time toward online education.
After a report intended to prevent unnecessary degree duplication failed to find any immediate cost savings, UNC-system administrators say streamlining online education will be a long-term strategy for more efficient University operations.