Governor's budget plan cuts $11.4M from U Wyoming - Associated Press

If the state Legislature follows Gov. Matt Mead's budget recommendations, the University of Wyoming would have its state funding cut by about $11.4 million but would get money for employee merit pay raises and for one of the largest building projects ever undertaken at the university. Under Mead's budget recommendations, released last Friday, the university's budget in the 2013-2014 fiscal year would be reduced by 6 percent from current spending levels, while most other state agencies would see an 8 percent reduction. The governor had requested that UW prepare for a reduction as steep as 8 percent, which would have meant a $15.7 million reduction. "It's just one of those things where it could have been worse," UW spokesman Chad Baldwin said. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/governor-s-budget-plan-cuts-m-from-uw/article_576fb10d-0035-5778-bf9d-a4a5e8116049.html