A statement from President Bardo to faculty and staff on Governor's budget announcement
As you may have heard, Gov. Brownback announced a budget decision today that will result in a 2 percent reduction in higher education funding in the current budget year, that runs through June. The impact on WSU is nearly $1.5 million.
Like all of you, we have been aware for months that this day might be coming so we've kept tight controls on spending and stayed focused on the essentials. The steps taken in anticipation will mitigate the effect on individual university departments.
Below is the public statement we're issuing, but I thought you'd appreciate this additional detail.
"Wichita State University is committed to accelerating the growth of the Kansas economy by providing high quality, applied learning opportunities to every student and preparing a creative, entrepreneurial, tech-savvy workforce. We are seeing great early success in creating partnerships with industry for our new Innovation Campus. The budget decision announced today is unfortunate and could slow us down a bit, but we are moving forward with our plans to support the people of Kansas."