Last semester, University of North Carolina students launched the #DebtFreeUNC campaign.
With the backing of the state Constitution, which declares that higher education should be as “free of expense” as “practicable,” students are asking lawmakers to lower tuition and increase financial aid at the UNC’s seventeen campuses so that, by 2020, incoming students would graduate debt-free.
On May 23, the NC Student Power Union took these demands to the offices of Governor Pat McCrory and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis, delivering a letter along with more than 18,000 red felt squares, each representing a student in the UNC system who graduated that month with debt.
The students pledged to hand out the squares to young people across North Carolina, asking them to join the fight in Raleigh this summer.
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