Our View: Higher education needs to be higher priority - Joplin Globe

A recent assessment of higher education needs in Missouri paints a gloomy picture. The state’s public colleges and universities face $1.4 billion in deferred maintenance, and it’s getting worse. The state has nearly 2,500 buildings on its campuses and countless miles or road and acres of parking lots, all needing attention, some desperately. Missouri Southern State University has more than $45 million in building and infrastructure needs, including more than $23.8 million in deferred maintenance; Crowder College has more than $10 million in needs. https://www.joplinglobe.com/opinion/columns/our-view-higher-education-needs-to-be-higher-priority/article_cfb53dbf-6139-5711-9348-76908b4005a7.html