Public Officials

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...

In 2000 the General Assembly proposed—and the voters approved—issuance of $2.5 billion in general obligation bonds for capital improvements at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and $600 million for the North Carolina Community College System. Since then, the funding news for UNC and the community colleges has been uniformly dismal, as the state has suffered through an economic downturn...

IN A 1971 SPECIAL SESSION called for that purpose, the General Assembly overhauled the structure for operating the state’s four-year institutions of higher education. It merged ten separate degree-granting institutions into the existing six-campus University of North Carolina (UNC) and placed all sixteen under one unified Board of Governors. To that board, the General Assembly gave the...

THE BIGGEST STORY in higher education legislation in the 2000 session of the North Carolina General As- sembly was the enactment of the Michael K. Hooker Higher Education Facilities Financing Act; it authorized, upon approval of the state’s voters in November 2000, the issuance of $2.5 billion of general obligation bonds for capital improvements at The University of North Carolina (UNC) and $...

THE BIGGEST STORY in higher education legislation in the 1999 session of the North Carolina General Assembly was a bill that did not pass—S 912—which, in its original form, would have authorized the sale of $2.7 billion in State of North Carolina University Improvement Security Interest Bonds and $300 million in State of North Carolina Community College Security Interest Bonds. The impetus...