Higher-ed in greater Minnesota braces for unallotment crunch - Jon Pike, Minnesota Independent

For Minnesota’s college administrators, the announcement of the Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s unallotment plans was a good news/bad news story. The size of the budgetary hit was not as big as they expected. But, it’s still a substantial amount. They were prepared for it, but it’s still coming. The governor announced that the state’s two higher-education systems — which comprise 32 colleges and state universities, four University of Minnesota campuses in greater Minnesota and the Twin Cities’ U of M campuses — will each take a hit of $50 million dollars, or about a 3.6 percent drop. Many of these campuses are a couple of hundred miles away from St. Paul where the budget decisions are made.