Post by pavel on Jan 18, 2016 12:22:50 GMT -6
On Monday, Gov. Doug Ducey pledged to be “a partner in strengthening Arizona higher education.”
On Friday, we learned that he’s apparently going to be partner in name only.
Ducey – he of the “Sharing Economy” -- is proposing that we share a whopping $8 million of state’s budget surplus with universities. This, after cutting $99 million this year from a university system that already had endured the nation’s deepest cuts since the Great Recession.
The applause from university circles was deafening. Must have been, because I sure didn’t hear any.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2016/01/15/roberts-seriously-gov-ducey-8-million-universities/78870706/
On Friday, we learned that he’s apparently going to be partner in name only.
Ducey – he of the “Sharing Economy” -- is proposing that we share a whopping $8 million of state’s budget surplus with universities. This, after cutting $99 million this year from a university system that already had endured the nation’s deepest cuts since the Great Recession.
The applause from university circles was deafening. Must have been, because I sure didn’t hear any.
Read more: www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2016/01/15/roberts-seriously-gov-ducey-8-million-universities/78870706/