MU budget update: 12 percent cut for each college, school and division

Interim Chancellor Garnett Stokes has released a statement about the budget changes coming to the University of Missouri.

In her statement to the university, Stokes said that each school, college and division will decrease their budgets by 12 percent.

Interim Chancellor Stokes goes on to say that these cuts are based off of President Choi’s guiding principles of challenging the status quo, making strategic decisions based on performance measures of excellence, protecting programs of excellence and being transparent.

According to Interim Chancellor Stokes’ statement, these budget cuts could also result in personnel downsizing, eliminating the Environmental Health and Safety Department building from the MU Education and General-use facilities portfolio, relocating EHS to the General Services Building, relocating the Truman School of Public Affairs to the administration of the College of Arts and Science and sharing common services across units.

The final plans for MU’s budget is due to President Choi on May 19.

You can read Interim Chancellor Stokes’ entire statement below: