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Updated: 9:39 PM Nov 20, 2009
ECU Trustees Approve Tuition Hike
College students at East Carolina will have to shell out more money for school, the question is how much more?
Posted: 7:26 AM Nov 20, 2009 |
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College students at East Carolina will have to shell out more money for school, the question is how much more?
ECU trustees unanimously approved a rate increase of 3.6 percent Friday.
ECU says that would mean undergraduate tuition goes up $90 to $2,581 a year and fees up another $80.
But just how much tuition at ECU and other state universities will rise is still up in the air.
The General Assembly now has the power to authorize tuition hikes for all 16 universities, and lawmakers are proposing an eight percent hike amounting to $200 more a year.
University spokesman John Durham says UNC President Erskine Bowles will ask lawmakers to reverse that decision and let individual schools again make the decision on tuition hikes.
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Posted by: Bria
Location: Rocky Mount, NC
on Dec 7, 2009 at 09:05 AM
How much does it cost for a dorm at ECU ?
Posted by: just saying
Location: jacksonville
on Nov 23, 2009 at 02:05 PM
I also did a search titled "UNC budget outlook" and it came up with the website "www.unc.edu/faculty/faccoun/reports/2008-09/specialrepts/NelsonBudgetOutlookPresentation". It shows that in 2008 UNC Chapel Hill received 22% of the state funding for the UNC system. NC STATE received 20% and ECU received 11%. Again, basically the same amount of students but a HUGE difference in money being sent to the schools. UNC received TWICE as much money than ECU with the same amount of students.
Posted by: just saying
Location: jacksonville
on Nov 23, 2009 at 01:05 PM
Here is a quote from "The Daily Tarheel" dated November 23, 2009. "The UNC system receives the third-most research funding in the country among public university systems. That funding constitutes up to 15 percent of its annual operating budget." "More than 90 percent of the total funding goes to the system’s two main research universities — UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University, said Steven Leath, vice president of research for the UNC system. That’s up from about 80 percent in 2008."
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