Budget cuts keep students out of school

Winston-Salem Journal
Editorial
August 29, 2011
As fall semester classes started at community colleges and public universities this month, students, their families and taxpayers saw the most dramatic effects yet of the monstrous cuts that the General Assembly has made to higher-education budgets over the last several years.  If the experience so far at UNC Asheville is at all representative of what occurs statewide, things do not look good. University officials told The Asheville Citizen-Times that many students are delaying enrollment or taking leaves of absence because they can't afford school.  Click here to read more.