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Nonpartisan staff outline higher education base budget and governor’s change items; OHE grant increase tops recommendations
Summary
Nonpartisan fiscal staff presented the November 2024 forecast and the governor’s 2025 recommended change items to the Minnesota Senate Higher Education Committee on Jan. 31, 2025, summarizing agency bases and noting a $15 million per‑biennium increase to the state grant program in the governor’s proposal.
Megan Bursch, a nonpartisan fiscal analyst with Senate Counsel, Research and Fiscal Analysis, briefed the Senate Higher Education Committee on the November 2024 budget forecast and the governor’s 2025 recommended change items.
Bursch said the higher education budget jurisdiction has a total all‑funds base of about $3.974 billion for the 2026‑27 biennium and roughly $3.970 billion in the general fund. She summarized agency base appropriations that commonly appear in the committee’s jurisdiction: the Office of Higher Education (OHE) had a general fund base of roughly $725.1 million, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MinnState) about $1.751…
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