I feel a great deal of confidence in my ability to do nothing acceptable with the data presented:
Political Action Committee Citizens for Higher Education released the results of a Public Opinion Strategies poll Thursday about how voters see the [$491 million in NC higher education budget] cuts.
Five hundred registered voters were surveyed and asked whether they were confident in the University of North Carolina system. Fifty-four percent of survey participants expressed a “great deal of confidence.” Compare that, David Rice of Citizens for Higher Education, said, to the 6 percent of voters who expressed a “great deal of confidence” in the N.C. General Assembly.
“The numbers are pretty clear,” he said.
Additionally, 76 percent of the poll’s participants said decreased funding for North Carolina’s public universities was not an acceptable solution to the 12.6 percent budget shortfall.
