PSU faces tight budget as enrollment climbs - Andra Bryan Stefanoni, Joplin Globe

Pittsburg State University is getting less in state funding this school year, but President Steve Scott hopes the campus can move forward with plans to build a $10 million fine-arts center. Scott on Thursday said PSU will receive $34.5 million in state funding this fiscal year — the same amount it received five years ago. But there’s one big difference: There are 650 more students on campus than there were in fiscal 2006, “putting stress and strains on everyone in this room,” he said. That’s an increase of about 10 percent in enrollment, relative to where PSU stood five years ago.