The Residency Manual
I. Introduction (continued)
B. Purpose of Manual.
The purpose of this manual is to articulate rules and regulations and set forth collateral law essential to the effective implementation of G.S. 116-143.1 and 116-143.3 and to provide guidance to each institution and its students in meeting their respective responsibilities under the law as to classification of persons by residence for tuition purposes.
G.S. 116-143.1 and G.S. 116-143.3, in their successive revisions, necessitated the development and revision of this manual to insure faithful and effective implementation of the statutes. The public higher education community, in discharging its responsibilities under G.S. 116-143.1, understands that the precepts of "due process" and "equal protection of the laws" dictate that a rigorous classification inquiry be undertaken to insure as fully as possible that persons who are not legal residents for tuition purposes of North Carolina will be charged the legally prescribed higher tuition rate and persons who are in fact legal residents of North Carolina for tuition purposes will be afforded the legally prescribed lower tuition rate
