| Cross post from Jon Pelto's Wait What?
Faced with a $365 million budget deficit in this fiscal year, Governor Malloy and his budget chief, Ben Barnes, released a list of $170 million in cuts today.
Their list of cuts is quite a commentary on Malloy's vision of shared sacrifice and on where cuts can actually be made.
After implementing the deepest cuts in Connecticut history to Connecticut's public colleges and universities...Governor Malloy is now cutting another $10 million from UConn, another $14 million from CSU and the Community Colleges and $1.3 million in student financial aid. (But Malloy is only cutting the financial aid that goes to students attending public colleges; the financial aid to the students attending Connecticut's independent colleges has already been given out and so can't be cut).
UConn's budget is about 1.2 percent of the total state budget - and yet their share of cuts amounted to 6 percent of today's $170 million in cuts.
Meanwhile, the Connecticut State University and the Community Colleges (now known as the Board of Regents) gets about 1.5 percent of the total state budget - and yet their cut amounted to 8 percent of today's total cuts.
The message couldn't be much clearer - Connecticut is dedicated to competing in the 21st Century by disproportionately cutting its system of public higher education. |
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