UConn says approved state budget would be ‘devastating’- Linda Conner Lambeck, CT Post

A budget approved early Saturday by the state Legislature would decimate the state’s flagship university, its president said. UConn President Susan Herbst sent out a message to the university community saying the approved state budget would cut UConn and UConn Health by $309 million over the next two years — $185 million for UConn and its campuses and $124 million for UConn Health. “The level of the cut is unprecedented and would be devastating for UConn, higher education in Connecticut and the state as a whole,” the message said. The cut is but just one component in a $40 billion budget Republican lawmakers managed to get past both the Senate and then the House with the help of Democrats unhappy with any of the options presented to them. http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/UConn-said-approved-state-budget-will-destroy-it-12202711.php