_New athletic teams helped MUW avoid cutting budget - Mary Pollitz, the Dispatch

Mississippi University for Women has faced numerous state budget cuts in recent years, causing student tuition to fund more than 50 percent of its expenditures. Acting President Nora Miller said tuition funding the majority of university operations was not always the case. "We used to be 60-percent dependent on the state and 35- to 40-percent on our tuition, but that has flipped," Miller told Columbus Rotary Club members Tuesday afternoon at Lion Hills Center. "That is also a national trend." In an effort to combat the state financial cutbacks, Miller said, MUW has added seven new sports teams to its campus this year, including women's soccer, men's and women's basketball and men's and women's tennis. http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=68423