UNC-Chapel Hill trustees are thinking about a 10% tuition increase for out-of-state undergraduates, based on meeting materials reviewed by The News & Observer. N.C. State trustees could raise undergraduate tuition…

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UNC-Chapel Hill trustees are thinking about a 10% tuition increase for out-of-state undergraduates, based on meeting materials reviewed by The News & Observer. N.C. State trustees could raise undergraduate tuition by 3% next year, for in-state and out-of-state students alike.

UNC doesn't seem to be planning another in-state undergraduate increase, though the UNC System gave it permission. Graduate students face a different picture. Trustees are looking at changes program by program, and one proposal would add $4,000 to tuition for a master's degree in applied professional studies, per the report.

N.C. State won't raise graduate tuition across the board. A few specific graduate programs are weighing increases.

The UNC agenda holds more. A proposed policy could give the provost greater control over how new campus-wide centers and institutes get started, which committees review them, and how they are ended or reclassified. Earlier this year, the university closed and merged six centers focused on international studies.

A presentation on the Academic Program Review Refresh Project says the review lets the university tell whether "cost of instruction is aligned with student demand," per The News & Observer. Trustee Marty Kotis once objected to "the lack of a single dollar sign" in older reviews of academic programs.

Trustees will also vote on $1.5 million in advance planning money for a herbarium building. Duke is giving its 825,000 plant specimens to UNC. That gift would make the collection the third-largest herbarium at any university in the country, the report notes.

At N.C. State, a trustee committee will vote on creating the Defense and Security Institute. The new group would pull the university's national security research and development into one place. It would also act as a "single front-door" for research money from the Department of Defense and other security agencies.

N.C. State is paying for a reporting job at The Assembly. The full-time reporter will write "a weekly newsletter and 100 stories a year" on the Triangle's research economy for The Assembly and Technical.ly, according to meeting materials obtained by The News & Observer. N.C. State is a "founding presenting sponsor" of the position.