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Gov. Nixon Signs FY2017 Higher Education Budget, Freezing Tuition for Missouri Undergraduates

4/29/2016

 
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UNION, Mo. – Gov. Jay Nixon today was on the campus of East Central College in Union to sign House Bill 2003, the Fiscal Year 2017 budget for higher education, which will freeze tuition for Missouri undergraduates for the fourth time since he took office. The budget provides an additional $71.3 million for higher education in Missouri, including scholarships and institutional operating funds. This will bring state support for operations at Missouri public colleges and universities to the highest level on record.

“With the signing of this bill, I am proud to mark another milestone for higher education in Missouri and our shared commitment to putting a quality, affordable college degree within reach for more families,” said Gov. Nixon. “Making higher education better and more affordable was one of the five principal goals I laid out when I first took office in 2009 and today we continue to deliver on that commitment with significant investments in our higher education campuses and another tuition freeze for Missouri undergraduates.”

In addition to the funding that two-year institutions will receive through Missouri’s performance-based funding model for higher education, House Bill 2003 also includes an additional $4.5 million for community colleges.

In September, Gov. Nixon was joined by leaders of the state’s public higher education institutions to announce an agreement to freeze tuition for Missouri undergraduates for the 2016-2017 school year. In addition to a tuition freeze for Missouri undergraduates, the FY2017 budget also answers the Governor’s call to increase funding for Missouri’s scholarship programs, including an additional $4 million for Access Missouri, an additional $2.5 million for A+ Scholarships, and $500,000 for Bright Flight.

Gov. Nixon has made higher education quality and affordability a priority of his administration. In 2010, Gov. Nixon convened a Higher Education Summit and called on higher education leaders to adopt an agenda focused on four key areas: affordability and attainment; quality and effectiveness; collaboration; and performance funding. Over the last five years, significant progress has been achieved in all of them.
This is the fourth tuition freeze Gov. Nixon has secured since taking office in 2009. According to the most recent data available from the College Board, tuition and required fees at Missouri’s public universities increased by just 9 percent between 2008-09 and 2015-2016, the smallest increase in the nation. By comparison, the average increase nationally over the same period was 33.5 percent.
Last year, Gov. Nixon worked with the General Assembly to pass a $200 million Building Affordability initiative that will help higher institutions hold down college costs.  Gov. Nixon has also made funding available for 50/50 projects to provide new-and-improved facilities, laboratories and infrastructure at colleges and universities throughout the state.
In addition, the Governor has worked with Missouri’s community colleges to increase training opportunities for Missourians through initiatives like Training for Tomorrow, MoManufacturingWINS, and MoHealthWINS.  These and other training initiatives leveraged more than $100 million to prepare thousands of Missourians for high-paying jobs in areas like health care and advanced manufacturing.
Answering the Governor’s call to make higher education more efficient and effective, higher education institutions voluntarily eliminated 118 non-productive degrees and redesigned several large undergraduate courses to make them more efficient and effective.
Gov. Nixon’s Innovation Campus initiative has been nationally recognized for creating partnerships to offer accelerated, high-impact degrees at a reduced cost. The goal of the Innovation Campus program is to train students for career opportunities in high-demand fields while cutting the time it takes to earn a college degree and reducing student debt.


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