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The UNC Board of Governors met at Fayetteville State University to hold its
September meeting and to take part in the official kickoff of the
Fayetteville-area campaign for the $3.1 billion bond issue for the state
university and community college systems.
That campaign joined Board of Governors members with about 150 business and
civic leaders, Fayetteville State and Fayetteville Technical College trustees,
and campus officials for a reception and tour at Fayetteville's new Airborne
and Special Operations Museum.
During the event, Board of Governors Chair Ben Ruffin, UNC President Molly
Corbett Broad and Community College System President Martin Lancaster spoke of
the educational and economic importance of the proposed bond package, which
would support significant renovation and construction at FSU and at
Fayetteville Technical Community College.
During the board's regular meeting, Public Affairs Committee Chair Jim Phillips
thanked board members for their ongoing efforts to educate North Carolinians
about the bonds and to promote grassroots involvement.
Phillips reported that the three national bond-rating organizations had
recently confirmed North Carolina's Triple A rating, despite recent setbacks
from flooding and court cases. Phillips also noted that the 2000 edition of the
well-respected State of the South report makes the strongest case since the
reports began for the need for substantial investment in universities and
community colleges.
Broad reported that U.S. Education Secretary Richard Riley had just released
the federal government's latest projections of public school enrollment through
the year 2010.
The report predicts North Carolina will experience the nation's third-highest
rate of growth in the number of high school graduates over the next decade.
North Carolina's high school class of 2010 is expected to number about 79,000
-- a 31 percent increase over 1999. Only Nevada and Arizona are projected to
experience greater rates of growth during this decade.
Broad said the national report offers objective, emphatic validation of the
University's 10-year enrollment and underscores the imperative of passage of
the November bond referendum.
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