Ongoing Coverage:

Tagged: budget

Pages

Education
9:03 am
Tue January 31, 2012

Cuts would be "devastating" says Chancellor Deaton

Credit File / KBIA
MU Chancellor Brady Deaton speaking at an event in Columbia.

A proposal to cut state funding to higher education would be devastating, according to MU Chancellor Brady Deaton.

Speaking on KBIA’s Intersection, Deaton said the 12.5% cut to MU’s budget would set the university’s state funding back to 1997 levels, despite having increased student enrollment by 50% in the time since. He says this would come on top of an already low record of state funding to higher education, with Missouri ranking lowest in terms of per capita funding among southeastern states.

Read more
Politics
3:42 pm
Thu January 5, 2012

Nixon's idea to borrow from state universities has been dropped

A proposal has been scrapped by the Nixon administration to borrow money from Missouri’s state universities to help balance the state’s budget.

Read more
Politics
3:18 pm
Wed December 14, 2011

Congress fails to pass budget amendments

Credit KBIA

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt said with the defeat of two balanced budget amendments today, Congress has reached a “generational moment”.

Read more

Pages