UNC-C Chancellor James Woodward said Friday that the university's Board of Trustees will consider a $400 campus-initiated tuition increase at its Feb. 4 meeting.
The announcement comes on the heels of the UNC-Chapel Hill BOT's passage of a $400 campus-initiated tuition increase. The increase, approved Thursday, will fund faculty salary increases and reduce class sizes.
Woodward said UNC-C's tuition increase would be targeted toward programs that improve undergraduate education, such as a learning facility program to ease the difficult transition to college work.
Woodward added that the revenue also would fund the hiring of more full-time faculty to replace some adjunct professors and also decrease the student-faculty ratio.
"Just like the trustees at Chapel Hill, our trustees recognized the problems associated with funding," Woodward said. "We are especially concerned about those departments that are dependent on adjunct faculty -- replacing adjunct faculty with full-time faculty."
N.C. State University trustees also will consider an increase at their February meeting.
More than half the schools in the UNC system either have approved a tuition increase or are in the process of determining if one is necessary for their campus.
Jeff Huskamp, ECU's chief information officer, said administrators are considering a tuition increase but declined to give any additional details.
"I certainly think (a tuition increase) has been a topic of discussion as the state's fiscal position becomes worse," Huskamp said.
