ASU seeks fiscal progress in 2013 - LAUREN KRIZANSKY, Alamosa News

Adams State University (ASU) continues to tackle its $2 million budget crisis, and the Board of Trustees is hoping things will start looking up in 2013. On Friday during the board’s meeting, Office of Finance and Governmental Relations Vice President Bill Mansheim reviewed the university’s current budget numbers, explained how the $2 million shortfall come to be through a snapshot of prior budgets and provided a budget forecast based on historic trends and increased 2013 spring semester enrollment. In addition to federal funding cuts to financial aid programs and the state reducing higher education dollars, Mansheim referred to the university’s recent campus expansion spending to identify monies lost. http://www.alamosanews.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=27667