Show High Higher t r Education v-v- v Finn Finances i aces Dis Discussed by Foundation Utah Is s a state characterized I Iby by an extremely high collegiate load a very low financial ability abil ity to support higher education and a superior effort made to finance the state colleges and the university This conclusion was reached today by Utah Foundation the non profit nonprofit profit tax research agency in their latest study on the problem of ot financing financing ing hIgher educatIon In Utah i Despite the superior effort made by State to support higher education in Utah the I expenditures per enrolled student student stu dent ent hav have been among the lowest tow low est jn the nation The The Foundations Foundation's tion's explains con con- tradition by the act that the percentage of Utah's population population popular tion enrolled in public Institutions Lions of ot high learning within the State Is more than three times that of the rest jest of the nation According to the report a major part of the higher education education tion burden in some states tates is borne by private Institutions In Utah however only 25 of the total enrollment is in private Institutions compared w with wIt 1 t h 49 for the nation as a whole The large Jarge number of out out out-of- ot I stat state students who come to Utah for their college training have added to the States State's already al ready extremely heavy college load Further complicating t the h e problem of financing higher education ed in In Utah is the fact tact that only a small part of the state tax revenue goes into the State General Fund from which the appropriations are made tar for the thel operating expenses of the university university uni and the colleges the report report re re- port part continues During the 1952 fiscal year general fund free revenue accounted for only about one one eighth eighth of ot the total revenue received by the State despite the fact that the General Gen eral emi Fund und must provide all or part of the financial support for 30 of the th 53 state spending departments as well wen a as the state has been teen able to finance seven state Institutions of higher high I Ier er learning The study tudy reveals that the higher education and other state functions in recent years only because of the transfer of sales tax revenue to the General General Gen Gen- eral erat Fund Since 1945 these thesel transfers have amounted to almost al most one fourth one of the total general fund free revenue I In addition the report concludes con eludes sales tax s surpluses have made possible the appropriation lion tion of building funds to Utah's I colleges and the university These appropriations are now making a substantial contribution I lion tion to a building program designed de I signed to accommodate anticipated antici enrollments and eventually ally illy will wUl make it possible to re re- place the temporary buildings I acquired from the Federal gov gov- I |