The Pain of Cuts: UNC system schools would eliminate jobs, trim classes - John Hinton, Winston-Salem Journal

Gov. Bev Perdue has proposed cutting the state appropriation by 6.5 percent, or $192 million, this year to the UNC system, a measure that would eliminate 1,600 jobs and reduce the courses available for students in the 16-campus system.... Perdue has asked the UNC system to develop scenarios of how budget cuts of 3 percent, 5 percent and 7 percent would affect their schools in 2009-10.