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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Senator Dan Seum has sponsored Senate Bill 75 to freeze tuition for four years for all Kentucky public universities. Here is his justification, “Since 2008, we, the state, have cut the general fund appropriation by $165 million for all eight universities. Since 2008, the universities have increased tuition by $572 million.” His insinuation is that
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Louisiana has funded new construction at its flagship campus in recent years of slashed higher education funding, but the state of deterioration at LSU is significant — and it is repeated across all of Louisiana’s public colleges.The Advocate reports the backlog for deferred maintenance at LSU reaches $510 million and has led to unsafe and
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Kansas lawmakers struck back at the University of Kansas on Thursday by adding a provision to the state’s budget to restrict the university from spending certain money. The provision is a response to the university decision to circumvent the Legislature’s authority last month when it issued $326.9 million in bonds. KU relied on a Wisconsin
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WKU Student Regent Jay Todd Richey responds to the higher educations funding cuts. I was extremely excited to hear Governor Bevin announce a 100% replenishment of lottery funding for higher education financial aid, because the state legislature diverted approximately $30,000,000 of that funding from CAP and KTG (both need-based financial aid) to the General Fund
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