The budget mess - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Apr 2, 2005

The budget mess

Date: Apr 2, 2005

http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050402/NEWS010504/504020350/1002

Date: Apr 2, 2005

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Originally posted by: No Mo' Money
"Big budget cuts coming down the road. I don't want any students that voted for the current governor to complain about how they will be paying more for less. They asked for him, they got him. http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050402/NEWS010504/504020350/1002"

Tuition will rise, but can't compensate for the level of likely cuts. As soon as the numbers come out, watch for Thames/Lassen to take to academic programs with a meat axe under cover of the "fiscal crisis." The provost will carry the president's water and the deans will be powerless to halt the carnage (what's new?). One hopeful possibility: having retracted the president's carte blanche for running (down) the USM campus, Crofts and the board will provide "guidance" and monitor closely.

Date: Apr 2, 2005

Well how about it fellow students. How do you now feel about the Republician agenda of "no new taxes"? The rich can go to college and the rest are out of luck. What will be the impact in 15 years when the population can't get a decent education? Oh, I know. Home schooling for college with lots of bible study. Ya, that will keep everyone happy.

Date: Apr 2, 2005

Who cares if we can't afford to go to college. Its a bunch of liberal b-s anyway. WE'VE STILL GOT THE FLAG!! and that's all the counts. I'll stay in McHenry and watch my job go to China while my children grow up stupid, without health care. I don't care 'cause I got my flag. Thanks Gov. Barber. Oh, and I'm damned glad yur keepin' cigarettes cheap, cause I sure do smoke alot of 'em.

Date: Apr 2, 2005

I notice, too, that the C-L story quotes prominent legislators demanding no tuition increases.

So they are planning to cut the state appropriation to the universities... and they intend to punish the universities with further cuts if the IHL Board approves significant tuition increases. But they have no particular recommendations about things the universities should spend less on (for instance, they never make an issue of expenditures on administration.)

All of this reminds me of the South Carolina legislature before 1999. In 2000, the SC legislators finally conceded that if they weren't going to increase direct state appropriations any more, it would be OK for the boards of the different universities to raise tuition. Since then new money, when available to the SC government, has gone into scholarships, not direct appropriations.

Robert Campbell