February 16, 2001
Budget Cuts for Colleges in 2 Southern States
The axes being held over the budgets of public colleges in Alabama and Mississippi finally fell -- hard -- this month.
The governors of each state announced anticipated, but painful, midyear reductions in state spending on higher education, leaving public colleges scrambling last week to find new sources of revenue and new ways to cut costs.
Gov. Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi, a Democrat, announced that he was trimming state spending on all public
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