VOLUME 115, ISSUE 110
Trustees move up tuition vote
Rates to be recommended at next week’s meeting
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
As part of an accelerated tuition process, the
UNC Board of Trustees is scheduled to decide
next week how much graduate and nonresident
tuition will rise.
The Thursday vote will come just 10 days after
the campus tuition and fee advisory task force
issued its recommendations, and student leaders
have complained about the stepped-up timetable.
In years past, trustees have voted on tuition
Student Body
Vice President
Mike Tarrant
said tuition talks
are flawed.
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weighs
tuition
forecast
Predictability looming
issue for nonresidents
BY ERIC JOHNSON
SENIOR WRITER
Everyone agrees that tuition should be
predictable.
From university administrators to stu
dent officials, there is an almost unbroken
consensus that if tuition is going to keep ris
ing, families should at least be able to plan
for it.
“I just think families need to know what
they can expect to pay,” said Craig Souza,
vice chairman of the UNC-system Board of
Governors. “I don’t think that’s unreason
able.”
But reasonable as it may be, Souza and
others are quickly discovering the reality of
tuition predictability.
Despite all the recent efforts of university
officials, the cost of a four-year education
remains, for lack of a better term, unpre
dictable.
At Thursday’s meeting of the BOG,
Souza suggested that all tuition bills
should include a note informing parents
and students about future tuition increas
es.
The UNC system recently adopted a pol
icy that limits in-state undergraduates to
maximum tuition hikes of 6.5 percent each
year, and Souza suggested that the policy be
explained on billing statements.
That ignited a heated debate.
“We can’t make promises,” said UNC-
Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser. “No
one can say with certainty what the fiscal
state of the University will be three or four
years down the road.”
And if the fiscal state of the University
is particularly dire, the 6.5 percent policy
allows for exceptions. Campuses can venture
outside the limit if they can prove a “signifi
cant unfunded need.”
“We have to leave room for those chang
es,” Moeser said.
On the other side of things, if the fiscal
state of the university is particularly good
as it is this year, following generous frmding
from the N.C. General Assembly tuition
hikes will probably be lower than 6.5 per
cent. This year, for instance, UNC-CH isn’t
raising tuition for resident undergraduates
at all.
Because of that, some board members
said that publicizing the 6.5 percent cap
could cause people to overreact.
“If you tell parents you’re going to raise
tuition 6.5 percent every year, you’re going
to incite a riot,” said board member Peaches
Blank.
So, because of how complicated the pre
dictability policy is and how many excep
tions it includes, board members aren’t
sure if they want to say anything about it
on tuition bills.
At the campus level, UNC-CH’s tuition
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External appointments a growing trend
Recent chancellors hail from other schools
BY KATIE HOFFMANN
INVESTIGATIVE EDITOR
The past three UNC chancellors
came from other universities, following
a national trend of schools to go beyond
their campus boundaries to find leaders.
But as the University moves to replace
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proposals in January.
“If we just made the recommendation a few
days ago, I think it’s way too early for the trustees
to be making a decision,” said Student Body Vice
President Mike Tarrant, who serves on the advisory
task force. “It’s just a broken process all around.”
Tarrant and Student Body President Eve
Carson said that the early tuition vote was not
well-publicized and that it leaves little time to
organize protests.
But Chancellor James Moeser said the new
for the Academic Search, one of the firms
that vied to lead UNC’s chancellor search,
said the “vast, vast majority” of searches
he has led in the past five years resulted
in candidates external to the searching
university.
“More often than not, universities
go outside for a chancellor or president
because they strongly feel that it’s time
for new vision, to start fresh,” Dißiaggio
said.
“I have a hard time thinking of any that
didn’t go externally for a president,” he
said.
tuition schedule was well known. He rejected
the notion that student officials had been kept
out of the loop.
“I think they weren’t paying attention,” he said.
Tarrant said student leaders are up to speed.
“It’s just not true,” he said. “We’ve been there. We
know what’s going on.”
Moeser said he has yet to decide which tuition
proposal he will recommend to trustees next
week.
“I haven’t formed any judgment yet,” he said.
“I will be soon.”
Advisory task force members suggested a range
of potential increases between SBOO and $1,500
Study Abroad Office struggles with demands
BY KELLEN MOORE STAFF WRITER
The UNC Study Abroad
Office is experiencing
growing pains.
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k sive study abroad program,
placing 1,350 students in 311
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countries last school year.
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' student participation in the
program, I guess we’ve been
very successful,” said Bob Miles,
associate dean for study abroad
and international exchange pro
R. William Funk
& Associates, the
research firm hired
by the chancellor
search committee,
listed 11 of its past
chancellor or presi
dent searches on its
bid for the job.
Eight of those searches resulted in
chancellors or presidents who came from
outside the searching university.
Nelson Schwab, chairman of the search
committee, said he did not want Funk to
comment for fear of possibly affecting the
process.
There recently has been a “vanity fac-
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for all graduate students, and between SI,OOO and
$1,500 for nonresident undergraduates.
But under the terms of the tuition process,
Moeser can recommend any level of increase he
wants, and trustees can decide on any level of
increase they want.
Roger Perry, chairman of the Board of Trustees,
said the accelerated timetable should not present
a problem.
He called 10 days “plenty of time,” noting that
trustees have been following the tuition debate
all along.
SEE TUITION, PAGE 11
grams.
But recent delays in credit trans
fers and a shortage of advisers has
left some students questioning the
strength of UNC’s program.
“I feel like, considering there are
so many people that study abroad,
they knew that there were going to
be hundreds of people coming back
in the spring,” said senior Alison
Siegel, who studied in Spain last
semester. “They are unprepared.
They had forewarning.”
Those student complaints have
not fallen on deaf ears. With the
recent success in greater participa
tion to build upon and setbacks to
learn from, University officials say
change is on the horizon for the
SEE STUDY ABROAD, PAGE 11
tor” that goes with picking an external
candidate, which can be exaggerated
by the use of a search firm, said John
Sanders, professor emeritus in the School
of Government.
“If they find that the best person is down
the hall, it looks like that they haven’t done
much of anything,” said Sanders, who has
worked with six chancellors. “The commit
tee could say, ‘We could have found him or
her without you.’”
External candidates also have the
advantage of starting with a clean slate,
Sanders said.
“There’s a certain charm that goes with
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