UNC schools feeling the cuts

The News & Observer
September 9, 2011
By JANE STANCILL - Staff Writer
The budget cuts across the UNC system are being felt in ways both big and small. On Thursday, a report from UNC system officials tallied the job losses and other impacts from $414 million in state budget reductions this fiscal year.

The UNC system has cut just over 3,000 employees - including 488 full-time and 2,544 part-time workers. Another 1,487 vacant jobs were eliminated. Last year, the system's workforce across North Carolina was 47,000.... Most of the part-timers who were let go were contract instructors, known as adjunct professors. That means bigger classes and fewer academic choices for the university system's 220,000 students. For example, UNC Greensboro has cut 975 course sections, or about 40,000 student seats.  Click here to read more.