UNC Enrollment at Stake? - Scott Mooneyham, Macon County News

Now we face another budget squeeze, a far worse economy and, no doubt, many more references to the Great Depression. UNC officials talk of eliminating 1,600 jobs and 660 faculty positions as they prepare to whack their budgets by as much as 7 percent. Courses will be eliminated. Classes will be crowed. Attention to students' individual needs will lessen. At N.C. State University, one proposal is to drop tutoring and advising programs, and cut counseling by 25 percent. At N.C. Central University, 340 course selections would be eliminated. At UNC-Chapel Hill, support for teaching assistants would fall. But officials at UNC-Chapel Hill have also put forward the possibility of limiting enrollment.