The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education approved a variety of measures during a meeting Friday with little discussion.
Among those measures was the approval of $963.4 million in state appropriations allocated by the state legislature and expected to be approved by Governor Mary Fallin.
The proposed appropriation total would represent a 2.4 percent cut from higher education's previous fiscal year.
Considering most state agencies saw larger percentage cuts, Chancellor Glen Johnson said he is thankful for what they were received.
“Normally you don’t say positive things or certainly look at celebrating a budget cut,” Johnson said, “but when the cut could have been 5 percent which equates to a $55 million budget reduction with no debt service -- that was moved literally within two weeks from the 5 percent to the 2.4 with the debt service -- it’s a significant positive swing in the right direction.”
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