University, students to feel pain of Missouri budget cuts
Lewis DiuguidBudget cuts proposed in Jefferson City always have a trickle down effect — like a large kitchen knife falling from the hand of one clumbsy chef onto the foot of another.
The 12.5 percent proposed reduction for higher in Missouri will result in a $9.4 million drop in funding for the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Students will feel it in higher tuition costs.
But staff reductions also are likely. What’s clear is the quality of the higher education provided at the university is being threatened by another year of state funding cuts.
The timing couldn’t be worse. But the continuing national and global economic turmoil and possibly another recession make it likely that more belt-tightening will have to occur in coming years.
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Mark Hastert
3 weeks, 5 days agoInstead of cutting higher education funding we should be increasing it. Companies go where the best educated and trained workers are.
America should take the next step, two years of public funded post secondary education in college or technical school for all high school graduates.
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 weeks, 5 days agoWhen professors give-up tenure, get back with me about funding changes. In the meantime, I have no desire to give lifetime employees, regardless of production(TEACHING), more money to be added to their salaries and obscene pensionsl….
George Hunsucker
Northland
3 weeks, 4 days agoEven obama knows our collegs and universities need drastic change but they resist…..
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/28/college-presidents-alarmed-over-obamas-cost-control-plan/?test=latestnews