SHSU takes 20 percent funding hit - Jerusha Rodgers, Houstonian

The administration outlined possible effects that the new university budget may have on students, faculty and staff during the public budget meeting held Tuesday. University President Dana Gibson, Ph.D. said state funding for SHSU has declined from 60 percent in 2001 to just under 40 percent for this upcoming fiscal year. She showed how this decline has resulted in higher tuition as well as some other changes for students, at the meeting. Tuition is also being increased in an effort to cover professors' salaries, non-state funded benefits for employees of the university, as well as a 15 to 20 percent increase for the Texas Public Education Grant.