Community College

  • Raises tuition at community college for in-state students (on top of tuition increase last year), thus making it more difficult to access a college education and postsecondary training.
  • Adjusts projected enrollment growth downward for FY 2014-15, for total savings of $17.2 million.
  • Creates a new tier of enrollment funding that provides greater funding for health care and technical educational programs.

University System

  • Imposes $76 million flex cut to the UNC system for the 2014-15 academic year (on top of several rounds of flex cuts in recent years).
  • Adjusts projected enrollment growth for FY 2014-15, for total savings of $1.77 million.
  • Changes enrollment growth funding model and eliminates requirement to limit budget cuts to institutional support areas when enrollment declines for total savings of $5.3 million.
  • In an unusual move, the Republican leaders in the legislature mandated a 12.3 percent increase in tuition for out of state students at UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina A&T, UNC Wilmington and UNC School of the Arts. The Republican leaders also increased out of state tuition 6 percent at 10 other campuses. This action by the Republican leaders was unusual in that it bypassed the UNC Board of Governors, which normally sets tuition for the state’s public universities. These tuition increases will make it more difficult to attract talented students from outside North Carolina.  It should be noted that many out of state students remain in North Carolina after graduation, adding to the state’s core of educated workers.

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