Saturday, November 07, 2009
Ky. Colleges Seek Funding
On Friday, the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education unanimously signed off on sending a request to Governor Steve Beshear for a proposed collective 4.6% budget increase in state funding next year for Kentucky's public colleges and universities. The request includes a $25 million wish list for academic programs. Seventy million dollars in federal stimulus funding was used this year to avoid cuts in the universities' state funding, but the federal stimulus funding goes away in fiscal year 2012, leaving leaders of eight public universities and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System hoping the state can at least keep its current $1 billion-a-year committment to higher education.
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