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As further state budget cuts loom over the University, student body president candidates are preparing for the inevitable.
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As further state budget cuts loom over the University, student body president candidates are preparing for the inevitable.
Facing a $3.7 billion shortfall in the state budget, some University officials have found themselves preoccupied by the prospect of 5, 10 and 15 percent cuts.
Students officially have less time to appeal for in-state residency — and may find residency harder to prove — thanks to an updated state residency manual.
As the University system prepares for one of its toughest years in history, its Board of Governors today will tackle two big issues facing students — the rising cost of tuition and the depleting funds for financial aid.
This story appeared as part of the 2010 Year In Review issue. The Daily Tar Heel resumes publication Jan. 10.
Universities across the UNC system are proposing tuition hikes well above the average in response to the state’s expected $3.5 billion budget shortfall.
Hogan Medlin was one student against 11 members of the Board of Trustees on Thursday morning.
Chancellor Holden Thorp recommended that the maximum allowed tuition increase come before the Board of Trustees today.
A provision in the revised UNC-system tuition policy could allow universities to increase tuition above the set limits, but administrators are still unsure how those requests for increases will be handled.
Faced with a $3.5 billion state budget shortfall and an anticipated $54 million in cuts to the University, student government is seeking to measure just how much students think their bills should rise.
UNC’s tuition policy-making body approved three different increase recommendations Wednesday, each of which would raise undergraduate tuition by at least 5.6 percent, or about $250 for residents and $1,300 for non-residents.
With the dust settling from last week’s historic election and the Republican takeover of the state legislature, University administrators are still holding their breath.
Administrators will consider devoting a portion of revenue generated from the 2011-12 tuition increase to raising salaries for faculty, who haven’t seen increases in several years as a result of financial cutbacks.
Fluctuating tuition from UNC-CH’s peer institutions might soon have a bigger impact on the University.
RALEIGH — Students at UNC-system schools with the highest tuition rates, including UNC-CH, could receive less need-based financial aid from the state as early as next year, officials said Tuesday in a presentation to legislators in the N.C. General Assembly.
The UNC-system Association of Student Governments has a lot more work to do, judging from its recent recommendations for the Four Year Tuition Plan.
Tuesday, student leaders from across the state presented the UNC-system Board of Governors with a rough draft of a tuition policy they want the board to consider.
Universities in the UNC system should plan on cutting their budgets by at least 10 percent and prepare to face a tough fight against legislators, the system’s President Erskine Bowles said Thursday.
Discussion concerning the UNC system’s budget for next year and potential tuition increases will start in earnest at the Board of Governors’ meeting today.
In the next three months, the UNC-system Board of Governors will be reviewing the Four Year Tuition Plan, which was created in 2006 by system President Erskine Bowles to provide more stability to the tuition process.