Wednesday afternoon Governor Parson made his State of the State speech and released his FY21 budget recommendations. This year the Governor recommended that the 91Ï㽶¶ÌÊÓƵ System core stay flat at $416M and a $3M line item for NextGen Precision Health.
The Governor also recommended $19.6M for MoExcels grants, with UMSL receiving $1.5M to expand the nursing program, MU to receive $2.5M for clinical service engineering program, S&T will receive $380k for an increase preparation of K-12 teachers qualified to teach in STEM disciplines and UM System will receive $1.9M for faculty development to support expansion of online programs in business, health science, IT, criminal justice, cybersecurity and business programs. A total of $6.2M out of the $19.6M.
Reviewed 2020-02-20