Enrollment losses, state cuts put MU in $60 million budget hole - Rudi Keller, Columbia Tribune

The University of Missouri faces a $60 million budget shortfall on the Columbia campus under a worst-case scenario for state support and enrollment, Chancellor Alexander Cartwright said Monday at a campus faculty meeting. The meeting, called to discuss a report recommending MU close 27 graduate programs, also included discussion of the financial straits the university faces in the coming year. The university has already cut an undisclosed number of non-tenured faculty to save money in the coming year and cutting programs is an important part of balancing the budget to protect the rest of the institution, he said. http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20180305/enrollment-losses-state-cuts-put-mu-in-60-million-budget-hole