Letter: Fight for higher education funding
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February 7, 2018
The Iowa Senate is considering a $6,900,000 cut to Iowa State, along with $17,000,000 in other cuts to Iowa’s higher education. With Iowa State’s budget strained as it is, we cannot afford more cuts to our university.
Our tuition is already scheduled to be raised 35 percent over the next few years due to a lack of funding from the state government, and if Iowa State is to remain an accessible institution to all people across the state this reckless midyear slash to our school’s funding cannot stand.
In the land grant charter for Iowa State, it states that the university should be established to provide an avenue to higher education for the working class people of Iowa. This promise is unattainable at the current rate of tuition growth due to a lack of funding from the state government.
Iowa State students need to call State Senators Bill Dix, Amy Sinclair and Tim Kraayenbrink at (515) 281-3371 and ask them to do the right thing by funding our universities and vote against Senate File 2117 and de-appropriation.
Students at Iowa State have been calling the Capitol to oppose these cuts, but we have to keep their feet to the fire. If we keep speaking up, we can stop these massive cuts.
