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Marcus Henry: Fund UNC system properly

Regarding the April 7 Point of View “What UNC professors do”: North Carolina Senate Bill 593 is the wrong solution to a real problem.

That the majority of UNC system undergraduate courses are taught by graduate students and adjunct professors (temps) is a real problem. Neither has the interest or the facilities for long-term student interaction so needed for the students’ academic success. No UNC school has sufficient full-time professors to teach all the classes.

The real solution is for the legislature to fully fund the UNC system so it can hire enough full-time professors needed to teach all the classes and to supply the needed classrooms, offices and labs.

Marcus Henry

Reidsville

This story was originally published April 8, 2015 at 4:37 PM with the headline "Marcus Henry: Fund UNC system properly."

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