Show i The Utah Statesman Prospect is bleak for planned budget increase Utah legislators intend to spend money on rebates other priorities by Doug Christensen speculation that the state Legislature will approve only a small in university funding USU President Stanford Cazier and much budget request tuition will have to rise by only 95 percent However should the Legislature approve a smaller increase as expected then tuition will have to go up to cover the difference iversity administration spent Wednesday afternoon appealing to the gnlature for money According to the regents Utah' s institutions of higher education must have Cazier told the Joint Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Higher more money and if tuition is the only source of that extra money then it Nation that USU “is having an im- must be raised accordingly cton this state of a significant The final decision on how much nension” and that a funding money the state system of higher is necessary education gets next year will be made The university is seeking by the Legislature with preliminary 1383390 from the state general At a time when USU is actively lobbying the state Legislature for votes coming as early as next week id a 169 percent increase over the more money for the next fiscal year budget cutbacks were announced However before that decision is rrrnl budget year made the Legislature will have to conThursday by President Stanford Cazier However a highly placed source The budget reductions totaling $373281 came as a result of action front several controversial measures m another Utah university said taken by a special session of the Utah State Legislature late last including a plan to return approxdnesdav that the legislature may that session the Legislature ordered a reduction of 1 percent imately $40 million to the state’s taxfrom the budgets of all state colleges and universities prove higher education funding at payers in the form of a rebate If the level which would irly the 1980-8This latest cutback brings the total budget reduction for the university rebate is approved the Legislature will an little or no increase at all to 75 percent for the year This action was taken as Cazier pointed out have less money to allocate to higher in a letter to the faculty and staff “at a time when the consumer price 'They're talking about not giving education or to the other state agencies (higher education) anything They index has exceeded state funding increases by 46 percent and when the vying for funding n keep it at the 1980-8level” he number of students enrolled has increased by 73 percent” The Legislature is considering three j In order to meet the legislative mandate a reduction of 1 percent different funding proposals one each 'You won’t hear that in here from the board of regents the gover(the totaling $95565 was made from the line item budgets This cut will afnmittce meeting) but that’s what fect such areas as the Water Research Laboratory the Ecology Center nor’s budget office and the y 're saying outside of the the Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Education Legislature’s own fiscal analyst meeting” said An additional $119977 or 4 percent is to be cut from the university The proposal submitted by the It said that one indicator was the education and general budget board of regents asks for a $57807825 lease in funding given to public The remaining $157739 will be obtained by charging a $2 per credit budget for USU Of that amount ication Public education hour tuition surcharge up to a maximum of $20 per student $43383390 would be allocated by the funding increased by only five Students at USU are already paying tuition totaling 211 percent of Legislature from the general fund percent he I the cost of their education The proposals submitted by the “Highrr education will probably about the unit amount” he add- In his letter Cazier said that “it is with great reluctance that the governor and the legislative analyst ask for considerably less money for the university has agreed to participate in the tuition surcharge authorized -- aziersaid that he hoped that the by the State Board of Regents” university According to a source M He said that he realized that the students are already under a heavy the state Capitol the Legislature (isature wuuld fund higher cduca-it- f burden a level higher than a five per-- t usually funds higher educatioar at a- - vlevel close to the budget provided by He also commended the university faculty and staff for “their increase but that he wasn’t the analyst cooeration and considerable dedication in meeting the obligapared to make any predictions Cazier in his presentation to the apdifficult situation” this in f (he the budget of university tions Legislature docs not fund subcommittee ignored the propriations her education at the level requested possibility of marginal funding and the Utah State Board of Regents higher education and USU in particular to ion is almost certain to go up to cover the lunds not allocated by the Amid in-a- st in-a- st of the New budget cut slated year-Durin- g 1 1 i i i nv- -‘ -- nt pslature regents the liody that will decide how much of a tuition increase tf will be next year have said that if the Legislature approves its Hit s (continued on page 7) n t: i c |