Gov. Jay Nixon announced an amendment to his proposed budget Wednesday afternoon that would provide $10.1 million in funding to the extension programs at MU and Lincoln University.
“There will still be a cut, but it is far less than what was originally recommended a couple of weeks ago,” said Nixon’s press secretary, Scott Holste.
According to Holste, the [...]
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Nixon proposes reduced cuts to extension
Posted in State funding, tagged budget, Extension, funding, FY2010, Lincoln University, MU, Nixon on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Curators meet Thursday, Friday
Posted in Curators, State funding, tagged Agenda, benefits, budget, Curators, furloughs, Live Stream, UM system on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The UM Board of Curators are meeting Thursday and Friday. State appropriations and employee benefits are among the topics to be discussed.
A full agenda for the meeting can be found here, and all other public documents for the meeting can be found here.
Also, when the board is meeting in public session, you can listen in [...]
Universities institute furloughs to save money
Posted in State funding, tagged furloughs, Gary Forsee, UM system on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UM System President Gary Forsee announced in a memo to faculty and staff Tuesday his intention to ask the Board of Curators to transfer the authority to institute furloughs from the board to the president. Forsee said in the memo furloughs, or unpaid days off, would only be instituted “if necessary.”
Other universities across the country [...]
Senator wants MOHELA money used to reduce tuition
Posted in MOHELA, State funding, tagged budget cuts, capital improvement projects, Columbia Missourian, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Emily Younker, Jay Nixon, Linda Luebbering, Missouri General Assembly, MOHELA, MU, Sen. Victor Callahan, tuition reduction fund, University of Missouri System on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 2007 sale of MOHELA (the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority) was supposed to finance 31 capital improvement projects at colleges and universities around the state.
But there’s only about $120 million in MOHELA’s bank account, and Gov. Jay Nixon recently suspended funds for those projects (including MU’s Ellis Fischel Cancer Center).
Now, Democratic Sen. Victor Callahan [...]
Missouri Higher Education Asked To Cut Budgets
Posted in State funding, tagged budget cut, College, crisis, deficit, economy, higher education, impact, Missouri, Mizzou, struggle on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Missouri Department of Higher Education sent a memo to the presidents and chancellors of all two and four year state institutions Tuesday that further revealed the country’s economic struggles.
The memo asked programs to cut their budgets between 15 and 20 percent due to a $340 million budget deficit, according to an stltoday blog post.
Deputy [...]
California schools could cut enrollment
Posted in State funding, tagged California State University system, Columbia Missourian, Emily Younker, enrollment cuts, New York Times, State funding, University of Missouri System, University of Missouri-Columbia on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Missouri schools obviously aren’t the only ones suffering from a sluggish economy. From the New York Times:
Hard hit by budget cuts, the California State University system is planning to cut its enrollment by 10,000 students for the 2009-10 academic year, unless state lawmakers provide more money.
“We can’t continue to admit more and more students without [...]
Missouri’s Not Alone
Posted in Financial aid, State funding, tagged Compete Missouri, Education budget crisis, Florida spending cuts, Higher education crisis, MU budget woes, University budget cuts on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My previous post (Enough Bang for Your Buck?, May 2) addressed the big picture regarding troubles with educational spending and how it intertwined with faculty concerns about the fiscal future of the university. The Compete Missouri plan, as it stands, will take $7 million of in-house money in order to fund faculty salary increases. That [...]
Enough Bang for Your Buck?
Posted in Faculty and Staff, State funding on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the Columbia Missourian, we’ve reported numerous times in the past few months on the rising cost of college education. The causes of the price hike that has pervaded the better part of this decade are numerous, but that’s not the point today.
Yesterday I talked with MU mathematics professor Stephen Montgomery-Smith about some MU faculty members [...]
Count Your Public Blessings
Posted in Financial aid, Fundraising, Miscellaneous, State funding on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Public universities are so big sometimes. They can be very daunting.
Sometimes I feel like just a number, and not necessarily a name.
Large lecture classes aren’t the best way to learn for me. And classes with teaching assistants aren’t always what I signed up for.
These are some of the types of statements I’ve heard both from [...]
Preparing to Care is “sound” proposal
Posted in State funding on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Springfield News-Leader’s editorial staff approves of UM President Gordon Lamb’s “Preparing to Care” proposal, which asks for $38 million to fund additional seats in institutions across the state for students to become health care professionals. That every higher education institution will benefit from the plan is “nearly unheard of” and should be “a sign [...]
