May 10, 2002

Chapel Hill Campus Expands Lobbying Efforts

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has created its own political-action committee to lobby state legislators.

The group, Citizens for Higher Education, is hoping for 100 members, each contributing $2,500 per year. The group will lobby for the entire 16-campus University of North Carolina system.

"It's sort of been on the table for a while now," said Paul Felton, a co-chairman of the committee, Chapel Hill trustee, and former dean of its business school. "We just

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