Pitt's requests 8.5% hike in state funding for FY10
In its annual budget request to the state, the University has asked for an 8.5 percent increase in next year’s appropriation. The request, submitted Sept. 22 to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, seeks a total of $205.34 million in state support including $180.95 million for educational and general (E&G) expenses.
At that level of state support, the University would intend to limit tuition increases to 4 percent and raise the compensation pool by at least 4 percent for FY2010.
The budget request also seeks $480,000 for disadvantaged students, $2.77 million for rural education outreach, $472,000 for student life initiatives and $567,000 for services to teens at risk. Pitt’s requests for line items that since FY06 have been funded through the Department of Public Welfare with matching federal funds include $9.85 million for the School of Medicine, $8.64 million for Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, $1.16 million for the dental clinic and $452,000 for the Center for Public Health Practice.
In last year’s budget request, Pitt asked the state for $202.8 million, an 8.5 percent increase. (See Sept. 27, 2007, University Times.) But the appropriation increase fell far short. When legislators signed the state budget in July, most of Pitt’s line items were frozen at prior-year levels in the state’s $170.73 million appropriation, although rural education outreach received a $100,000 boost (to $2.56 million) and Pitt’s E&G line was increased 1.5 percent to $166.78 million. (See July 10 University Times.)
—Kimberly K. Barlow
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