State funding to universities could be more ‘fair’ with new formula - MARY SELL, Alabama Daily News

The record $7.1 billion education budget approved in the Alabama Senate on April 30, 2019, contains at least 5 percent increases for the state’s public four-year universities, but a formula to get more money to under-funded institutions met with some concern. “I represent an institution that feels like they were not made whole in the budget,” Sen. Tom Whatley, R-Auburn, said in a budget committee meeting last week. http://www.trussvilletribune.com/2019/05/05/state-funding-to-universities-could-be-more-fair-with-new-formula/