By Antonio D. French
Filed Thursday, February 23 at 8:19 AM
State Sen. Joan Bray (D-24) has beef with Elson Floyd, the University of Missouri system President.
According to a story in yesterday's Columbia Daily Tribune, she took issue with Floyd’s interpretation of an agreement reached last year to increase the amount of money going to UMSL.
Floyd said his understanding was that if the university system received a greater percentage increase from the state over what other public colleges and universities were getting, then that percentage difference would be applied to increasing money for UMSL.
"That seems to be a fair approach," Floyd said. "We would hope you would concur."
Bray disagreed. "That’s not exactly the way I remember it," she said. "And that bothers me."
Floyd is under fire because of the funding gap that exists between what UMSL now receives and the amount required under an equity funding formula. Floyd told the Senate Appropriations Committee that about $3.2 million had been allocated toward the $10 million gap.
1 Comments:
UMSL always gets shafted. The UM system pisses on UMSL all the time. Our rural majority in congress does not do much either.
2:39 PM, February 23, 2006
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