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Students, faculty and health professionals warn proposed budget cuts threaten UConn, CSUs and community colleges
Summary
Hundreds of students, faculty and hospital clinicians told the Appropriations subcommittee cutting state support for UConn, UConn Health and the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities would reduce student services, research capacity and nursing and allied‑health training, and urged permanent funding solutions amid federal grant uncertainty.
Students, faculty, union leaders and health professionals spent hours at the Higher Education Subcommittee hearing urging lawmakers to restore or increase state funding for the University of Connecticut (UConn), UConn Health, the Connecticut State Universities (CSUs) and the Connecticut State Community College (CT State) system.
Lorien Toupontz, undergraduate student body president at UConn Storrs, told legislators, "UConn is a vital organ to Connecticut," and said state investments in the flagship university return money and jobs to the state economy. Several UConn students described personal hardship that federal and state aid…
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