UNC System tuition hikes on the table for 2012-13

WRAL-TV
October 7, 2011
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors began discussions Friday about how much to charge for tuition in the 2012-13 school year and beyond. Although no formal decisions were made, the board and the leaders of the 16 UNC university campuses agreed they would likely have to pass on more of their costs to students.

"If the state is not able to fund higher education the way they have in the past, we are going to look at the balance between state funding and student funding," said Randy Woodson, chancellor of North Carolina State University.  His counterpart at UNC-Chapel Hill agreed. "While tuition is a last resort for us, we are to the point where we are going to have to talk about using tuition to help Carolina maintain the quality that we've had for all these years," Chancellor Holden Thorp said. Click here to read more.