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NC Higher Ed Budget Breakdown | Durham News
North Carolina just passed a bold new state budget that’s reshaping higher education — with big cash infusions for colleges, mental health mandates, and a major overhaul of community college funding tied to job-ready programs. Governor Stein signed the bill, which allocates over $100 million to universities and $73 million to community colleges to handle rising enrollment, plus incentives for schools seeing 5% full-time growth. Mental health helplines will now be plastered everywhere — from IDs to syllabi — while state scholarships are now off-limits for students convicted of assaulting…
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