Instead of the nearly $40 million Legislative appropriations increase Iowa’s Board of Regents wanted in the next budget year, Gov. Kim Reynolds has recommended a $12.3 million bump amounting to a 2.5 percent increase for each of Iowa’s public universities.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds proposed funding for Iowa’s Board of Regents far below its requests and rejected rural health care and campus mental health initiatives.
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Taking a cue from last year’s Legislature, Iowa’s public universities for the upcoming session have made significant “special purpose” funding requests that would focus on rural health care, rural development and teacher recruitment.