“It’s been a tough year for recruitment,” WKU President Timothy Caboni recently told WKU’s Staff Senate. Caboni acknowledged that WKU cannot know for certain in advance how well it will do in the fall with enrollment, but he said “we are in terrific shape, given everything that we’ve faced.” There’s a lot at stake for WKU. In the new campus operating budget the university’s board of regents will take up Friday, tuition and fees subsidize 48% of the total $375 million spending plan for fiscal year 2022. A budget narrative document included in the board’s meeting materials indicates WKU will undergo another round of belt-tightening in the upcoming fiscal year, which begins July 1.To plug a budget hole of $9,160,032, WKU will depend on its academic affairs and other campus divisions to shoulder most of the cuts, a combined total of $6,487,358.
