Restoring state funding for higher education is a structural way to keep college costs down for students, the head of Kansas' governing board of education said after a community college announced plans to develop a degree costing just $15,000.
Blake Flanders, the Kansas Board of Regents' president and chief executive, told the Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2kdWL9r) that regents-governed colleges and universities have lost $75 million in funding over the past three years. Last spring, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback cut 4 percent from public higher education to help balance the budget, saving about $30 million.
Flanders watched Friday as Brownback announced that Cowley County ...
Restoring state funding for higher education is a structural way to keep college costs down for students, the head of Kansas' governing board of education said after a community college announced plans to develop a degree costing just $15,000.
Blake Flanders, the Kansas Board of Regents' president and chief executive, told the Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2kdWL9r) that regents-governed colleges and universities have lost $75 million in funding over the past three years. Last spring, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback cut 4 percent from public higher education to help balance the budget, saving about $30 million.
Flanders watched Friday as Brownback announced that Cowley County ...