Thursday, December 10, 2009
Number snapshots
Enrollment, Lawrence Campus
Fall 2000: 25,920
Fall 2009: 26,826
Support to KU from State General Fund
Fiscal Year 2001 (Fall 2000): $132.8 million
Fiscal Year 2010 (Fall 2009): $136.8 million*
*before latest adjustments
Tuition and required fees, fall semester
Fall 2000: $1,362.50
Fall 2009: $3,706.85
Number of student groups registered with the Student Involvement and Leadership Center
Fall 2000: 358 groups
Fall 2009: 540 groups
NCAA men’s basketball tournament television contract, annual payment from CBS to the NCAA:
2000: $216 million
2009: $545 million
Men’s basketball coach’s salary
Roy Williams, 2000: $413,460, plus deferred compensation
Bill Self, 2009: $3 million
In the last 10 years, the University’s budget has weathered state budget shortfalls, a period of steady growth and a recession.
The $132.8 million dollars of support to the University from the state Legislature was cut in fiscal years 2003 and 2004, bottoming out at $129.4 million. A four-year period of increases followed, and the recession has cut the budget to 2006 levels.
Kathy Damron, director of state relations for the University, said the state was making steady increases in higher education spending until the recession, which started last year.
“It’s all about the economic downturn, Damron said. “The world just changed as we know it last September.”
The governor’s $2 million budget cut to all Board of Regents institutions announced Nov. 23 has yet to take effect. Regent Jill Docking said before the announcement that if spending on higher education dropped below 2006 levels, the state would lose funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, often referred to as the stimulus package.
One area that hasn’t seen decreases is tuition, outside of the University’s tuition compact started in 2007 for incoming freshmen.
Mallory Saunders, Olathe senior, has been a student at the University for six years and has experienced the increase firsthand, seeing tuition increase about $1,300 for a 12-hour semester’s worth of classes since 2004.
Though she lives with her parents, Saunders said that last semester felt especially financially tight. She has used financial aid every semester at the University.
“I wasn’t working because I knew I’d have a heavy load,” Saunders said. “I used financial aid for living expenses — I had car payments to make. If I was living on my own, I’d be screwed.”
— Edited by Tim Burgess
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