University presidents ask for more research funding - Claire Cardona, Dallas News

This session, legislators will look at how to enlarge the research funding coffers and raise more state universities to Tier One status. The House Higher Education Committee on Friday asked state university presidents what they want out of the upcoming session. The answer was unanimous and predictable: more funding. “There is just no doubt, that in the 12 public school peer group we work in, for state [Available University Fund] and tuition support per student per year, we’re at the bottom,” said Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas at Austin. Powers and Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin said they do not receive enough in funding to attract the best brains in the nation in terms of graduate students and researchers, and expressed concerns that by increasing the number of Tier One universities in the state, the funding for each would go down. http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2012/10/university-presidents-ask-for-more-research-funding.html/