A&T, UNCG budget cuts hurt entire community - Linda P. Brady and Harold L. Martin Jr., News-Record

In the current fiscal year, the UNC system permanently reduced its budget by 6 percent or $162.5 million in addition to a one-time reversion of $134 million and targeted those cuts on administrative costs in order to protect the classroom. Although the UNC system accounts for only 13 percent of General Fund appropriations, last fiscal year it contributed nearly 30 percent of the budget reversions imposed across state government, bringing the total cuts to the UNC system budgets this year to almost $300 million. The General Assembly's budget for 2010-11 already reduces the university system budgets by another 2 percent. An additional 3.9 percent budget reduction, resulting in total cuts of nearly 6 percent, would cut directly into the academic core, significantly reducing the quality of academic instruction and student experience at A&T and UNCG.