University Of Hawaii Officials Push Back Against Proposed Budget Cuts
Though the University of Hawaii is expected to get an influx of federal relief funds this year, officials still have concerns that cuts proposed by the Legislature could hurt higher education programs.
Lawmakers have proposed 10% cuts for UH in a state budget that also sees Hawaii government as a whole taking general fund reductions of about 7%. Many program cuts have been supplanted by federal relief funds thanks to the American Rescue Plan Act. UH is expected to get relief funds sent directly to each of the 10 campuses that comprise the state higher education system.
But what those funds can be spent on is not yet clear, and administrators are pushing back against the proposed cuts.
“As is clearly evident, the budget passed by the Legislature demonstrates an approach that disproportionately reduces funding to the university,” UH budget chief Kalbert Young wrote in a legislative recap on Thursday.
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