# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-11-14T18:17:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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After criticism of the idea on Wednesday and passionate debate on Thursday, the UNC Board of Trustees approved an increase in tuition and fees for all incoming undergraduate students with a split vote.

The measure passed, as recommended by university administrators, 6-5 during the full board meeting Thursday morning with Trustees Ritch Allison, Jennifer Lloyd, Ralph Meekins, Vinay Patel, Malcom Turner and Student Body President Adolfo Alvarez supporting the change. Trustees Brian Allen, Patrick Ballentine, Jim Blaine, Marty Kotis and John Preyer dissented, while four board members were not present to vote: Rob Bryan, Perrin Jones, Vimal Kolappa and Ramsey White.

The potential tuition increases — which now head to the UNC System Board of Governors for review — would be the first since 2017, as the UNC System began a stretch of requiring tuitions to be kept flat. Chancellor Lee Roberts’ administration crafted the proposal after the System’s Board of Governors signaled earlier this year that North Carolina’s public universities could seek up to a 3% increase on its in-state undergraduate students. The flagship campus’ leaders proposed meeting that limit, which would translate to a $211 increase per year, alongside a 10% increase on tuition for out-of-state undergrad students ($4,320 per year) a $53 increase on student fees for the purposes of raising capital for a new student recreation and wellness center, a 7% increase on on-campus housing costs and a 3.9% increase on Carolina Dining Services fees.

Roberts and Vice Chancellor of Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman recommended the increases to bolster the university’s finances while raising the costs to address inflation over the last nine years and be closer to UNC’s peer institutions’ tuitions.

“When we compare ourselves to our peers, we’re required to stay in the bottom quartile by system policy and we’re well within that,” Roberts said afterward to gathered media. “Even with this very modest increase for resident students — [which] doesn’t affect any current students — we’ll still be one of the very best values in higher education.”

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