Kentucky State University President Raymond Burse says the governor’s proposed cuts could force the school to declare financial exigency or close.
Burse, in a letter he sent Monday to university stakeholders, said either or both of those options could be on the table because of the governor’s proposed funding cuts. At the start of the year, Burse said the university “was and is in crisis mode” and he noted that Gov. Matt Bevin’s budget plan for the university marked a “very significant financial change in how we go forward at Kentucky State University.”
Monday’s letter said he had been given more time to analyze in detail what Bevin had proposed, and while they understand the governor’s intentions, “his budget efforts as proposed will be detrimental to Kentucky State.”
It is not that we do not want to participate, cooperate and help advance the state, but we, KSU, do not have the resources available to meet the many current needs as we move forward to address correcting years of improper processes,
procedures and in some instances, yes, negligence, as to duties and responsibilities,” he wrote.
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