UNC supporters should press for better funding - News & Observer

Liberals joke that State Budget Director Art Pope, not Pat McCrory, is the real governor of North Carolina. But now it seems they conferred the wrong title. Pope, the wealthy owner of discount stores and funder of conservative candidates and think tanks, apparently would prefer to run the University of North Carolina System. That’s the message implicit in his recent description of the university system’s budget request as “unrealistic.” In a memo to university leaders, Pope pointedly said the university was asking for too much and should consider using money from sources other than the general fund. He said the university system had basically ignored his office’s instructions in December to keep its budget increase to no more than 2 percent. http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/03/15/3702871/unc-supporters-should-press-for.html