<p>Is anyone worried like I am. These new proposed budgets cuts really scew things over. <a href=“http://www.tcnj.edu/~ccr/news/2006/budget/[/url] ”>http://www.tcnj.edu/~ccr/news/2006/budget/</a></p> ;
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in Governor Jon Corzine’s annual state budget address, he proposed a spending plan that included drastic cuts in higher education funding, which would have an enormous impact on TCNJ and all New Jersey colleges and universities. While I disagree with the governor’s recommendations for cuts to higher education, I admire the forthrightness of his approach to the budget problems of our state. Some of the budget plan’s specifics have yet to be revealed, but we know it would do the following:</p>
<pre><code>* Reduce higher education spending by approximately $170 million overall
Cut TCNJs base appropriation by almost 11 percent ($4 million)
Provide no funding for the salary program increases negotiated by the state (over $4 million for TCNJ)
Eliminate roughly $3 million in funding for TCNJ’s employee fringe benefit costs, which are mandated by state-negotiated contracts
Phase out the Outstanding Scholar Recruitment Program (no state funding for the students entering in the fall), which will exacerbate our states enormous brain drain problem by sending many of New Jerseys best and brightest out of state for college and, ultimately, their professional careers. We hope that the state will meet its obligation to the incoming freshman class, but TCNJ will fund four years of the awards for those students if it does not.
Eliminate the Governors School for the Arts, which provides needed summer revenue to TCNJ and serves as a vital student recruitment tool
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Tally1
April 19, 2006, 2:51pm
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<p>Yes, the new proposal puts TCNJ in a very difficult financial situation. Although as a future student I’m very apprehensive about such drastic cuts, the school has promised to fund all promised scholarships and I trust that it will keep its word.</p>
<p>it better keep its word because i turned down some other offers…</p>