Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] I swear: MU could be toast

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

This bill is idiotic because the scholarship dollars per student we're 
talking about aren't enough to actually get someone to school that 
wouldn't have otherwise.  Unfortunately, that's how they're presenting 
it politically. 


Jonathan King wrote:
> Words fail me here.  You wouldn't have to work very hard to convince
> me that there is a better way to fund Missiouri's colleges and MU than
> the current model, but who really believes that this is the correct
> way to do it?
>
> http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Mar/20060307News001.asp
>
> To cap Missouri's colleges and universities at the level of what they
> got in 2001 (and in nominal rather than real dollars at that!) is just
> about the most idiotic idea I have ever heard.  I remember 2001, and I
> think it's fair to say that that was not exactly a banner year when
> the money around here flowed like honey or anything.  Since then, of
> course, we've been admitting more students than ever, so what the
> proposed bill actually would entail would be to *cut* real per-student
> funding for Mizzou.  (I'll need to check, but I think the relevant
> values here are about a 15% decrease due to inflation since 2001
> coupled with at least a 10% rise in students.)
>
> Could somebody who has the cred please try to talk some sense into the
> current administration so that they work to undo this?
>
> jking
>
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