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A total of 14 centers and institutes will be decommissioned, according to a budget reductions presentation to the board in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will close its area studies centers in 2026, faculty members within the centers told Inside Higher Ed<\/em>.<\/p>\n The six centers\u2014the Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies\u2014are all expected to close at some point next year.<\/p>\n \u201cOur leadership team is taking a thoughtful and targeted approach, looking into areas that can be streamlined for greater efficiency, strengthening our operations while meeting our fiduciary responsibility to the people of North Carolina,\u201d the UNC media relations department said in a statement. \u201cA number of factors were taken into consideration while evaluating Centers and Institutes and some programs have been identified to be sunset [sic]<\/em> in 2026. The list is not finalized at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n Further updates will come after the January Board of Trustees meeting, the spokespeople said.<\/p>\n In a \u201cbudget reductions update\u201d to the board\u2019s finance and infrastructure committee in November, university officials said they planned to save $7\u00a0million in annual spending from \u201ccenters and institute reductions\u201d made over several years, with a goal of $3\u00a0million in budget reductions before the end of this fiscal year in June 2026. A total of 14 centers and institutes will be decommissioned, according to the presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A total of 14 centers and institutes will be decommissioned, according to a budget reductions presentation to the board in November.\u00a0 Tar_Heel_Rob\/iStock\/Getty Images The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will close its area studies centers in 2026, faculty members within the centers told Inside Higher Ed. The six centers\u2014the Center for European Studies,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[7994,1805,1083,5634,6149],"class_list":{"0":"post-38348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-area","9":"tag-centers","10":"tag-close","11":"tag-studies","12":"tag-unc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}