The State of the Budget at Longwood University - Rotunda, Longwood University

In the past three years, Longwood University has seen some of the largest drops in state funding ever. The cuts from the State General Fund at Longwood were six percent in fiscal year (FY) 2008, five percent in 2009, and is ten percent this year. Longwood's fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. Add another 15 percent expected in FY 2012 and it takes us to a total of a 36 percent budget cut from 2008 to 2012-that is over a third of our university's general fund budget.