University of North Carolina system loses 3,032 jobs due to budget cuts
News & Observer
September 8, 2011
The UNC system has cut 3,032 employees across North Carolina due to state budget reductions, including 488 full-time workers and 2,544 part-time employees, a new report said.
Most of the part-timers were contract or adjunct professors, which means bigger classes and fewer academic choices for the university system's 220,000 students. The UNC Board of Governors will be briefed on the impact of the cuts later today.
Many of the job eliminations were in the Triangle, particularly at the state's two big research campuses. Of full-time workers cut, 112 were at N.C. State University, 129 were at UNC-Chapel Hill and four were at N.C. Central. Of the part-time employees who were let go, 629 were at NCSU, 175 were at UNC-CH and 75 were at NCCU.
At the state's public campuses, another 1,487 unfilled positions were eliminated.
