In Illinois and Pennsylvania, eight-month budget stalemates threaten the future of public higher education. Source: In Illinois and Pennsylvania, budget stalemates force colleges to cover their losses

Democrats won three of the four seats up for grabs on Tuesday, tightening their hold on the state House. Source: Ky. Gov. Matt Bevin stands by state budget cuts, despite Republi – WDRB 41 Louisville News

FRANKFORT, Ky. – It is highly unlikely that the Kentucky House’s version of the state budget will include any cuts in the current year to funding of state universities, House Speaker Greg Stumbo said Friday. Source: Greg Stumbo: No current year university cuts in Kentucky

And so it begins in Kentucky…The famous American political scientist Harold Lasswell famously defined politics as who gets what, when, and how.  What is Governor Bevin getting? When is he getting it? How is he getting it?  We might also add to this why does it have to be in this particularly painful political way?
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I would not normally open a relationship with someone by naming them a fool, but I cannot help but call out this video for what it is–politically moronic. And worse, it’s not even funny. Modern technology allows us to comment on his “not ready for YouTube” political theater in the Vialogue embed below. You can just
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An alternative to Governor Biven’s at best hazy and uncompromising budget position.  Well worth the read, as usual, from the excellent KY Policy blog. The General Assembly has less than two months to finalize the next two-year state budget. Although the governor’s budget rightly takes a big step toward fully funding our pension liabilities, taken
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After holding off with several cuts until Monday night meeting hoping the State Budget Impasse would be resolved, the Kaskaskia College Board of Trustees were forced to make tough decisions at last night’s meeting cutting programs and positions. Citing they were not cutting fat, but into the bone…the board unanimously approved moving forward with several
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If you are looking for short-term, severe consequences to higher education spending cuts, look no farther than what is happening in Illinois.   What is surprising (although it shouldn’t be) are the unintended consequences that already arise from the cuts.  For example, students might be required to pay back grants that universities fronted to students
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WKU President Gary Ransdell gives an official response to higher education budget cuts in Kentucky.  The short and sweet?  Get politically active. Dear Friends: We are approaching a lost decade of state funding for higher education in Kentucky, marked by state budget cuts of more than $173 million since 2008, rising tuition, and flat compensation for
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Political jockeying has begun as the House holds hearings on the budget.    FRANKFORT — Monday will make the 32nd day of this year’s 60-day budget session, and Senate Republicans are anxious to get their hands on the $21.8 billion biennial spending plan. Senate President Robert Stivers, who on Thursday took to the Senate floor
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