Former UNC employee Charles Hitlin was arrested Tuesday night and charged with 47 additional second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor.
The UNC-system Board of Governors unanimously passed its five-year strategic plan for the system Friday morning.
A comprehensive review of academic programs, originally projected to provide long-term savings for the UNC system, has ended — without identifying concrete ways to cut programs or costs. The system is still searching for ways to absorb a 15.6 percent state budget cut enacted this summer. Now that it can’t count on eliminating unnecessary programs to make up some of the $414 million cut, one of the only avenues left is raising tuition.
UNC’s tentative proposal to increase in-state tuition by 40 percent during a multi-year span far exceeds the UNC system’s cap, but administrators said they were not surprised by the proposal. The system’s new Four Year Tuition Plan, which went into effect this academic year, maintains the system’s 6.5 percent cap on tuition increases.
The UNC system has been forced to cut vital resources in the classroom, and now it is cutting some of its leaders. The UNC General Administration, which includes President Thomas Ross and other senior officers, abolished 11 positions to cope with the budget cuts — and it could bring an axe to even more.
When the UNC system’s governing body met Thursday, discussions about how to absorb budget cuts and supplement them through other sources of revenue dominated its agenda.
UNC law student and Hillsborough native Amanda Gladin-Kramer bought her first road bike and began cycling in May.
UNC-system administrators are working to expand foreign language learning opportunities for students as part of an initiative they hope will save money in the long run.
UNC-system administrators will be presented today with campus-by-campus data detailing a clearer picture of the effects of this year’s budget cuts.
When Ulugbek Kasimov arrived in Chapel Hill from his native Uzbekistan, he didn’t know how to drive.
