Bowles: House plan would bar thousands of students from UNC

The Charlotte Observer
Sunday, June 14, 2009

From University of North Carolina system President Erskine Bowles on the draft 2009-11 budget in the N.C. House:

We are extremely grateful that House members made the very difficult decision to recommend a modest revenue package to help balance the state budget and thereby lessen deep cuts to education and other critical state services. ... While this revenue package is an important step in the right direction, we remain gravely concerned that the remaining $263 million of cuts proposed by the House would have a severe and lasting negative impact on student access and the quality of education our universities can offer our students.  Click here to read more....