The state will need about 8,500 new teachers each year for the next 10 years. In the School of Medicine, less time would be available for teaching and research as faculty members would be called upon to provide needed health services. In the University's plant and maintenance operations, at least 50 staff positions that would range from engineers to housekeepers would be cut. And that loss would severely impede the University's ability to repair and maintain its buildings. In addressing Faculty Council members, Moeser said Carolina needs to ally itself with N.C. State University because they represent the two great publicly funded research universities that in many ways are the most vulnerable to state cuts.
Excellence is a very fragile thing.
It doesn't take great insight to fill an average institution, but it takes great care and tenacity and perseverance to build a great institution over time and that is what is at stake in many ways before us at this moment.