Budget cuts and tuition hikes are changing schools’ revenue models
Tori Gill has been planning ahead.
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Tori Gill has been planning ahead.
TO THE EDITOR:
Tuition increases approved Nov. 17 by the Board of Trustees will represent just a portion of cost hikes for some graduate students.
Student fees are on the rise, budgets are being slashed across the board and classes are steadily being shaved away.
Offsetting budget cuts has spurred a divide between administrators, with some leaning toward substantial tuition increases and others calling for alternate forms of action.
Although gender-neutral housing was not on the Board of Trustees agenda this week, supporters are still hopeful to have the option by next fall.
For administrators and trustees, the decision to propose increasing tuition by 15.6 percent for in-state students came down to the financial needs of faculty, whose salaries have been frozen for three years.
Despite vehement student opposition, UNC administrators approved Thursday a 15.6 percent tuition hike proposal for in-state students.
The Board of Trustees approved a 15.6 percent tuition increase for in-state students Thursday morning, rejecting a proposal by Student Body President Mary Cooper to delay the vote until December.
UNC-CH is not the only school proposing unprecedented tuition hikes for in-state students.
Chanting student protesters halted a meeting of trustees for nearly three minutes Wednesday following the approval of a 15.6 percent tuition hike for in-state students.
During Thursday’s full Board of Trustees meeting, Student Body President Mary Cooper’s thoughtful proposal was briefly acknowledged by the trustees but dismissed as a real alternative.
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.
“Poverty is not an excuse from but a reason for education.”
Following a discussion today on how best to fill short-term funding gaps with tuition hikes, members of the Board of Trustees will focus their attention on the long-term financial health of the University.
The University’s proposal to raise in-state tuition by 15.6 percent next year will likely pass through the budget, finance and audit committee of the Board of Trustees today.
University administrators approved a plan to raise in-state tuition by 15.6 percent after a heated debate Monday, leaving administrators and students alike dissatisfied.
The tuition and fee advisory task force approved 15.6 percent tuition hikes for in-state students and 6.5 percent hikes for out-of-state students at its meeting Monday morning.
Student Body President Mary Cooper will present a tuition proposal to the tuition and fee advisory task force today she says spares current students from more intense hikes proposed by UNC administrators.
BOONE — As UNC-system administrators prepare to draw up tuition-increase proposals, student leaders this weekend discussed where they stand on the issue.