State shifting more higher ed costs to students
North Carolina’s constitution demands an affordable public university, a core principle that for two centuries has helped poor young people from the Coastal Plains, small mill towns and mountain hollows grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder and start climbing.
But in recent years, as the student share of the cost keeps rising and taxpayers’ contribution gradually decreases, the state has quietly, steadily drifted toward a different funding model for higher education. And that slow slide is prompting some alarms.
“If you look at the amount of tuition increase we’ve already seen, the budget cuts we’ve already had, and these next cuts, we’re really talking about a different philosophical approach to higher education,” said UNC system President Tom Ross. “We shouldn’t go down a road like that without significant debate, because it has huge implications for the future of the state and the health of its economy.”
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