School Law Bulletin #2006/08

After a number of lean years in a row, officials of the University of North Carolina (UNC) and the state’s community college system rejoiced in 2006 over happier fiscal news. Appropriations by the General Assembly raised the university’s budget by almost 12 percent and the community college system’s budget by more than 15 percent. In other actions, the legislature made the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics a constituent institution of the university (a “constituent high school”) and directed the university’s Board of Governors to study the feasibility of bringing North Carolina Wesleyan College into the system as a constituent institution. It also authorized the Board of Governors to delegate authority to the university’s president and expanded several scholarship programs.