Senate budget panel looks at college funding
March 14, 2013 11:00AM
Updated: March 14, 2013 10:53PM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Senate Appropriations Committee is examining the state of higher education funding as it continues budget deliberations.
The panel plans to meet Thursday morning to review state aid to colleges and universities. Funding was slashed during and after the recession.
New Gov. Mike Pence included a 1 percent increase in higher education spending in his budget in January. The House upped that amount to a 3.5 percent annual spending increase in the budget it approved.
University leaders and lawmakers have sparred in recent years over tuition increases spurred by state budget cuts. Former Gov. Mitch Daniels recently announced he would freeze student tuition at Purdue University, where he now is president.
