Robbing the Scholastic Peter to Pay for the Incarcerated Paul: The Show-Me State Showing Its Mulishness (5)
IS THIS THE PERPETUAL END GAME
The results of this mulish criminal justice social-engineering policy is the present circumstance of public higher education in the Show-Me State. In 1977, the legislature provided 47 percent of the University of Missouri – Kansas City’s (UMKC) operating revenue. This year — before the proposed further 12.5 percent cut — a mere 15 percent of its budget is state subsidized. In just the past three years, factoring in the governor’s proposed slashing budget cuts, the per-student appropriation at UHKC will have dropped from $9000 to $5700. As a consequence, the Kansas City Star, with matter of fact reporting, observed that “students and their families will have to shoulder [an ever] larger part of university revenue through tuition checks.”
