Can you believe this? The Board of Governors are attempting to close down research centers across the UNC System. Six of the 32 they will be looking into eliminating are at UNCG and NC A&T. Of these include the Center for New North Carolinian's, a center that involves students in service learning classes educating refugee families and helping them integrate into America.
So are these research centers useful cuts? We don't think so; in fact, we should be investing in these institutions for the a...
Can you believe this? The Board of Governors are attempting to close down research centers across the UNC System. Six of the 32 they will be looking into eliminating are at UNCG and NC A&T. Of these include the Center for New North Carolinian's, a center that involves students in service learning classes educating refugee families and helping them integrate into America.
So are these research centers useful cuts? We don't think so; in fact, we should be investing in these institutions for the advancement of our education.
Join us on February 27th as we go to the Board of Governors Meeting at UNC Charlotte to silently stand against these cuts. At this meeting they will move along with their plans to nominate and elect a new President, so this will be extremely important.
Here are the institutes that face elimination:
Appalachian State University Brantley Risk and Insurance Center; Center for Economic Research and Policy Analysis; Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics
East Carolina University Center for Applied Computational Studies; Center for Diversity and Inequality Research; Center for Health Systems Research and Development; Center for Natural Hazards Mitigation Research; N.C. Agromedicine Institute; N.C. Center for Biodiversity; Rural Education Institute
Elizabeth City State University Drug Information Center*
N.C. A&T State University Center for Cooperative Systems*; Center for Human Machine Studies*
N.C. Central University Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change; Juvenile Justice Institute
N.C. State University Institute for Emerging Issues
UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Center for Public Service; Carolina Women’s Center; Center for Faculty Excellence; Center for Law and Government; Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity; James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy; Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History; UNC Center for Civil Rights; University of North Carolina Institute on Aging
UNC Greensboro Center for Creative Writing in the Arts*; Center for Educational Research and Evaluation*; Center for New North Carolinians**; Center for Social, Community and Health Research and Evaluation*
UNC Wilmington Swain Center for Business and Economic Services
Western Carolina University Cherokee Center at WCU; Public Policy Institute
Winston-Salem State University Center for Community Safety; Center for Economic Analysis*
**http://m.news-record.com/news/local_news/unc-research-centers-in-budget-crosshairs/article_c6098dfa-b57f-11e4-b04c-6be10a81e764.html?mode=jqm
