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If the BOT votes for the plan, it will
fall into the hands of the BOG and then
to the N.C. General Assembly.
Conner said he was optimistic that
efforts might sway the opinion of
trustees. “I know that several trustees
will vote for the tuition increase one way
or the other, but many will be open
minded,” he said.
He said students must have a loud
voice to emphasize the drastic effects the
proposal would have if passed. “We are
asking people to come to the trustee
meeting and share personal stories,” he
said.
Conner said the tuition increase was
way too large. “A much smaller increase
would have been very different. There
will be a major detrimental effect to the
present and future student bodies. No
amount of financial aid will be able to
fix it,” he said. “The saddest thing is, I
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Universities.
“So clearly salaries were competitive
then, as far back as 1985,” Friday said.
But in the years that followed, main
taining competitive faculty salaries
became a more difficult task.
Paul Hardin, who served as the
University’s chancellor between 1988
and 1995, stressed the importance of
recruiting quality faculty in a speech
given on University Day in 1989.
“Let us work affirmatively at replac
ing ourselves with a fair share of the
brightest and best and most idealistic of
the oncoming generation,” Hardin said
in the speech.
But Hardin said Tuesday that the
University was continually challenged
to balance tuition with adequate rev
enue. “The University always needs
more money,” he said. “But we are also
concerned about how much we charge.”
Hardin said a recession that hit the
N.C. economy in the late ’Bos and early
’9os might have limited the legislature’s
ability to allocate funds for faculty
salaries.
Provost Dick Richardson said a rea
son the University continually struggled
to match other public institutions was
that the General Assembly typically pro
vided state employees with lower annu
al pay increases than other states.
Richardson said states such as
Virginia, California and Georgia pro
vided their universities with pay increas
es ranging from 5 percent to 7 percent,
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don’t think that the tuition increase
bothered anyone on the committee.
Heinke emphasized that student gov
ernment was not against faculty benefits,
only against large tuition increases for
students. “We’re willing to go to Raleigh
and lobby for the faculty,” Heinke said.
A steep tuition increase could run
counter to the University’s ideology,
Heinke said. “No one thinks that the
quality of the University should slip, but
deviating from the University’s mission
of a great education at a low price is not
the right answer,” he said.
Heinke said an important aspect of
UNO’s allure was its value. “It is easy to
look at the University and think tuition
should be higher, but one of the reasons
this University is so good is its cost,”
Heinke said. “To sacrifice a world-class
student body in order to attract a world
class faculty will not make the
University better.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
while North Carolina only gave 3 per
cent or 4 percent increases to state
employees each year.
He said a need to catch up to com
petitors prompted the legislature in 1995
to look to tuition to subsidize salaries.
“That was the first time we were
allowed to keep a tuition increase to go
to faculty salaries,” Richardson said.
In 1995, the legislature empowered
the trustees at UNC and N.C. State
University to increase tuition by S4OO to
aid libraries, financial aid and faculty
salaries, Richardson said.
But reactions to allowing tuition to
pay for faculty salaries were mixed
among UNC’s leaders.
BOT member Walter Davis, who
advocated the tuition increase in 1995,
said Monday that further increases were
necessary if the University was to retain
quality faculty. “(The faculty) are not
going to be taken care of if the tuition
doesn’t increase because the state is not
going to have the money for he next two
or three years. If we don’t keep up, we
are going to be out in the cold.”
“It is just like running a business.”
But Friday, who declined to com
ment specifically on the current propos
al, said increasing tuition to pay salaries
could restrict educational access.
“Extreme tuition increases keep peo
ple out of the University that ought to be
there,” Friday said.
“Asa matter of policy, I do not
believe access to the University should
ever be governed by the ability to pay.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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have an effect,” Hendrick said.
“The University is facing some dan
gerous times. I know many faculty
members are on the job market.”
Hendrick said a tuition increase
would not be his first choice for the
source of a faculty salary increase. But
he and English Professor Edward
Kennedy said increases might be the
best available option right now.
“I think it is probably going to be
necessary in order for faculty to be paid
salaries that are competitive,” Kennedy
said. “Although students may object to
the cost, it is something that is going to
protect the value of the degrees they get
here.”
Some professors also argued that the
increase was necessary because UNC’s
tuition was lower than that of many
peer institutions. “Tuition has to be in
line with what other state universities
do,” Flora said.
However, some said they felt low
tuition costs should not be overshad
owed by faculty needs.
Assistant French Professor Sahar
Amer said she did not feel it was the stu
dents’ responsibility to support faculty.
“I really think student tuition should
not be the one paying for our salary,"
Amer said. “It’s a state school, so I think
it should be the legislature.” The pro
posal calls for legislators to fund the typ
ical 3 percent faculty increase next year
and a bench-marked 5.5 percent
increase over the next four years.
“A substantial amount of the increase
should be used to help those that can’t
pay for their tuition,” said physics
Professor Jianping Lu. “But raising
tuition just to pay salary is not the right
thing to do.”
Under the proposal, 30 percent of
the money generated by the increase
will go toward financial aid. “I think
(raising tuition) is a good idea as long as
we have ample need-based scholar
ships,” said Townsend Ludington, chair
man of the curriculum in American
studies. “Not just faculty raises, but
other aspects of our university system
need more financing.”
Hendrick said it was important to act
for the best interests of the University.
“If it pits faculty and students against
one another, nobody’s going to profit, it
will just hurt the institution,” he said.
“Instead, we should try to find common
ground. I’d like to see some meeting of
the minds.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.