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GOP lawmaker derides Kansas public universities as committee sifts through budget requests | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas


Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector
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Rep. Barbara Wasinger, R-Hays, is convinced budget problems at public universities in the Kansas Board of Regents system are tied to bloated academic programs and declining enrollment.
TOPEKA Rep. Barbara Wasinger peppered state university administrators with assertions that campuses across Kansas were a morass of academic program duplication, dwindling student enrollment and unreasonable consumption of tax dollars.
Her perspective not universally shared by her Republican and Democratic colleagues carried weight as vice chairwoman of the House Higher Education Budget Committee. The panel was responsible for sifting through budget requests on behalf of six public universities managed by the Kansas Board of Regents as well as Washburn University, community colleges and technical colleges within the board’s jurisdiction. A comparable budget process has been occurring in the Kansas Senate ....

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