Cuts taking toll on quality of universities, accessibility to them

Wilmington StarNews
February 11, 2012
Editorial

UNCW students will have to scrounge up another $527 next year because the University of North Carolina Board of Governors raised tuition and fees for every campus – over the protests of students who say they’re tired of having the cost of higher education fall so heavily on them.

Although the state constitution says admission to our public universities should be free “as far as practicable,” students and their families are absorbing more and more of the burden of supporting our world-class university system. At the same time, the state’s share of the cost continues to shrink. State lawmakers have slashed funding for higher education. That cannot be allowed to continue. UNCW lost $16.6 million this budget year, after taking previous cuts. UNC-Chapel Hill lost $100 million. Click here to read more.