Texas University Chancellors Brace for Budget Cuts
Here are some numbers that every chancellor of a university system in Texas knows by heart: Out of $1,250,250,767 that Texas cut out of its current, 2010-11 biennial budget, $518,424,781 was drained from higher education. That’s 41.47 percent of the 5 percent total reduction among all state agencies demanded by the state's leadership. Higher ed’s overall share of the state’s budget, meanwhile, is 12.5 percent.
The chancellors are adamant that their institutions not be hit disproportionately in the next round of cuts.
Of the state’s six chancellors, four ...
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Charles D Stephens via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And who will this effect? The Disenfranchised, The Marginal, and POORER in the great state Of TEXAS. Rick Slicks Kids are gonna go to College, but my KIDS on the Historic Racial divided EASTSIDE will stay on the Path of unEMPLOY TO TDCJ....i am talking about the Children of COLOR and my Poor White Brothers and Sisters..Why because Rick SLICK would not Accept Federal EDUCATION FUNDS!
George T. Contreras via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It does not suck to be black or brown... IT just sucks to be POOR. PERIOD. Povery knows no race, gender or creed. And to think... 5 billion in monies cut from Education... Lets crap on their one true means of getting out of povery.
Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Excuse me while I wipe the tear from my eye. All you have to do is have kids in the education system to realize all the money spent on education does not make it to the classroom. In fact I'll bet only 50% makes it to the classroom. This article is about college and university spending. I am guessing a full tenured professor makes about $175,000 a year for the four classes he teaches each semester, or I should say the classes he oversees the teaching assistants teach. Maybe if we ask each full tenured professor to take a 5% pay cut in order to keep their job we could save some money. Think about it!