3 Arizona universities facing budget irony

by E Wayne Ross on July 27, 2008

The Arizona Republic: 3 Arizona universities facing budget irony

Awash in building funds, must cut $50 mil elsewhere

Officials with Arizona’s state university system found themselves in a budget irony on Thursday.

They had to cut $50 million from their operating budget for the coming year at the direction of the state Legislature. At the same time, they had to decide how to spend $1 billion the state Legislature has approved in campus-construction projects over the next three years.