Forum

Join students, workers, and faculty for a public forum to make our voices
heard about how budget cuts and tuition hikes are affecting us and to
strategize about what we can do stop the university from continuing to
balance the budget on our backs!

Alongside universities nationwide, UNC Chapel Hill is in the middle of a
severe budget crisis brought on by the economic crisis. The university has
responded to the crisis by cutting available class sections and raising
class sizes, cutting scholarships, laying off and furloughing campus
workers, limiting services offered by various university centers, and by
cutting departmental budgets, which is having an especially detrimental
effect on departments that represent oppressed peoples.

In addition to such budget cuts, administrators intend to make students pay for the budget
crisis by raising tuition for out of state students by over $1400.
Meanwhile, UNC still finds the funds to pad the six-figure salaries of
administration and construct a fast food joint in the Student Union.

We hear the administration's perspective on the budget crisis frequently in
newspapers and other formats, but rarely do we hear the voices of the
people who are directly affected by these cuts. We're organizing the public
forum on November 11 to hear from students, grad students, workers, and