More than 70 students — an increase from Monday’s turnout of roughly 30 — attended Student Body President Mary Cooper’s second tuition forum Tuesday.
“Carolina in Crisis: Securing our Education” differed from Monday’s forum, which featured only Cooper.
Students posed questions and offered ideas to a panel of five representatives, including Daily Tar Heel columnist Mark Laich?ena and Vice Provost for Finance and Academic Planning Dwayne Pinkney.
Today’s forums are in Murphey 116 at 4 p.m. and the Campus Y Lounge at 7 p.m.
Is there any possibility of having tuition increases equally met — for example, raising out-of-state tuition $800 and also raising in-state tuition $800?
There are opportunities for other options where we would increase by a dollar amount rather than a percentage amount. Is a real dollar amount something that makes more sense, or does a percentage amount make more sense? If people think the dollar amount makes more sense then that’s what we’ll go and advocate for.
UNCI think what we can all understand is that if we end up with a University with high tuition that is more like a private institution, we probably aren’t going to walk that back. Do we say, perhaps, that these are going to be tougher times but we need to remain the type of University that we want the state to have for the next 200 years?
The state has competing demands and these have an impact on the funds available here. This University in particular advocates aggressively in the legislature for the University and for higher education.
