Western Carolina University will increase tuition by $709.80. 80% of the increase will be used to save faculty positions. The rest will help pay tuition for those who can’t afford the increase. UNC – Chapel Hill and NC State took full advantage of the $750 increase allowed by the state, on top of increases already in the works. The state is allowing students to personally make up the $70 million in public contributions it un-appropriated. WCU vice chancellor Chuck Wooten and UNC system president Erskine Bowles said the tuition increases were for quality.