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Mr. Nieman offered a substitute motion to amend the portion of the main motion

of the Supplemental Budget Request regarding undergraduate tuition recommendations as

follows:“Tuition increases at UNC Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University be set at

$200 (or $300, if the financial aid package is not approved) for one year, and a 2.1 percent across

the board for the entire university, excluding other specific campus requests.”

Mr. Sanders seconded Mr. Nieman’s amendment to the main motion. Following a request by

Mr. Farris, Mr. Nieman agreed to permit a separate treatment of three of the campus-initiated

requests (ECU, UNC Charlotte, and UNC Wilmington), rather than considering the tuition

increase recommendation as a whole. Mr. Sanders concurred in Mr. Farris’ request but pointed

out that the motion would substitute President Broad’s recommendation with respect to

undergraduate tuition for the recommendations of the Budget and Finance Committee with

respect to undergraduate tuition at the five institutions.

In the discussion which followed, Mr. Robinson, legal counsel and

parliamentarian for the meeting, ruled the motion was a substitute motion and Mr. Nieman

restated his motion, noting that the board consider separately the campus-initiated requests.

There was considerable discussion surrounding the substitute motion and a number of members

raised questions.

Mr. Nieman explained his substitute motion. [In order to clarify further the

substitute motion, Mr. Sanders said, “the effect of the motion is to substitute President Broad’s

recommendations for $200 or $300 per year, one-time at Raleigh and Chapel Hill, and no other

undergraduate increases at this time.]Following additional discussion, Mr. Nieman withdrew

his permission to consider Mr. Farris’ request for a separate treatment of the campuses and asked

that his substitute motion be voted upon first.

In his comments opposing the substitute motion, Mr. Warwick said:

I would like to speak in opposition to the substitute motion. The Budget and Finance
Committee has considered a very comprehensive tuition program and there area number
of elements that are being left out if you adopt the substitute motion. I don’t think that
everybody fully understands the effect of that. For instance, there is nothing in Jeff’s
motion to provide for East Carolina University going to a Doctoral II status and there is
nothing to provide the additional tuition for the law school at Chapel Hill, the business
school at UNC Wilmington, and some other graduate increases that were in the total
package.