Bowles wants lawmakers to reconsider UNC tuition hike

WRAL-TV
November 13, 2009

Chapel Hill — The University of North Carolina System president wants the General Assembly to reconsider a mandated tuition hike for all students in which the additional revenue would go to help with the state's budget woes.

As part of its budget deliberations this summer, legislators increased tuition rates for the 2010-11 school year for the UNC System's 13 universities by the lesser of 8 percent or $200.  That money is set to go into the state's General Fund.  President Erskine Bowles wants state lawmakers, when they reconvene in May, to give tuition hikes back to the campuses.  Click here to read more.