Budget Cuts Could Cost Students

WUNC-FM
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
By Laura Leslie
State lawmakers are looking for spending cuts to offset a $3.2 billion shortfall next year.  But higher education officials say a proposal to cut their budgets 10% would mean fewer seats, fewer classrooms, and higher tuition.  UNC Chief Operating Officer Jeff Davies says universities already sustained huge cuts in this year’s budget.  He says schools would have to raise tuition 6.5% just to keep their doors open.

Jeff Davies: The 10% budget cuts, at $270 million, would reflect the entire budgets of  Appalachian, Elizabeth City, the Cooperative Extension Service at NC State, the School of the Arts, and the School of Science and Math.  Click here to read more.