The UNC Board of Governors will take up a proposal next week to ask the legislature to approve an alternative to a tuition plan adopted as part of the state’s 2010-11 budget. The General Assembly capped tuition increases at the lesser of $200 or 8 percent for each campus.
The board meets next Thursday and Friday at the Spangler Center in Chapel Hill.
UNC system President Erskine Bowles plans to ask legislators to consider an alternative to that plan when lawmakers return to Raleigh in May.
UNC officials will outline their thinking on tuition and fee increases at a policy workshop next Thursday, where board of governors members are also scheduled to hear a briefing on the state economy and the impact of the governor’s 5 percent “holdback†in funding announced shortly after the budget was passed.
Also due for review by the board are new guidelines for student conduct codes. The new rules are the result of work by a task force set up by Bowles that looked into conduct codes and hate crimes in the wake of racist graffiti at N.C. State.
The proposal acknowledges the need to balance free expression and First Amendment rights with the responsibility of students to respect the “rights, dignity, worth and freedom of each member of the academic community.â€
The language in the proposal makes it a violation of the student code of conduct to harass and intimidate individuals based on their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, disability or veteran status. — Staff Reports