UA president: Dunleavy budget cuts a 'policy choice' to allow dividend payouts - Erin McGroarty, Daily News-Miner

University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen on Wednesday countered Gov. Mike Dunleavy's Monday letter to the university community, calling the governor's deep budget cuts "a policy choice for Alaskans, not a fiscal necessity." Dunleavy sent a letter to the university community Monday claiming "some" had been inaccurately reporting his budget cut numbers. He recharacterized his sweeping cuts to university funding as a 17 percent cut to the overall university budget rather than a 41 percent cut in state funding. http://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/ua-president-dunleavy-budget-cuts-a-policy-choice-to-allow/article_d7dac984-405b-11e9-b01e-97671e6cecd8.html