Fort Hays President Asks University Family To Continue Coping With Funding Cuts - WIBW

In an address to Fort Hays State University faculty, staff and student leaders on Tuesday afternoon, President Edward H. Hammond warned that the economic crisis was likely to continue through the year 2012 but expressed optimism that the university could meet the challenge. "We have to stop meeting like this," he quipped before providing a detailed review of the economic troubles that have reduced state funding for FHSU by $4,651,202 over the past year. "A year ago we met to discuss the phenomenon of an economic tsunami that was hitting the state and requiring the Legislature to make cuts. As I feared, we are in this economic crisis for a lot longer than a lot of people want to believe."