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The North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges is holding a public hearing on its new admission policy regarding illegal immigrants. From today's North Carolina Register:

The State Board of Community Colleges has initiated the permanent rule-making process to amend 23 N.C.A.C. 2C.0301 – "Admission to Colleges" as published in 24:08 NCR 568. Please note that a public hearing on this Rule will be from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Friday, 18 December 2009 at the following location:

Archives and History/State Library Building
109 East Jones Street
Raleigh, NC 27603

Oral Comments: All persons desiring to provide an oral comment will be required to sign in and provide his or her name, affiliation, city and state prior to speaking. Oral comments will be limited to three (3) minutes per person. The Hearing Officer prefers that any person desiring to make an oral presentation at the public hearing present a written copy of the presentation prior to addressing the hearing.

Written Comments: Parties wishing to provide written comments may do so. The deadline for submitting written comments is 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 18 December 2009. Written comments may be submitted at the public hearing or may be submitted to the following:

Q. Shanté Martin, Rule-making Coordinator
200 W. Jones Street, 5001 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-5001
Email: publiccomments@nccommunitycolleges.edu

All comments received during the public hearing or during the written comment period will be considered in the final determination on the rule.

This is one of those items that affects few people since very few people here illegally will be able to afford the full boat tuition. However, this policy causes a lot of noise because the issue of illegal immigration is one that stirs a lot of emotions.

For those who need background:

• Here is the AP story from when the Community College Board originally passed the rule.
• This is a story I wrote earlier this year on the topic.
• This is a Chronicle of Higher Education story.