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University System tells appropriators record enrollment masks a widening maintenance gap
Summary
Chancellor Lisonbee Perdue told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education on Nov. 8 that the University System of Georgia is seeing record enrollment and better retention but that its maintenance-and-operations funding formula lags actual campus costs by roughly twofold.
Chancellor Lisonbee Perdue told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education on Nov. 8 that the University System of Georgia (USG) is projecting record enrollment this fall and a stronger-than-expected retention and graduation rate, even as the system faces a persistent maintenance-and-operations (M&O) funding shortfall.
Perdue said the system—xpects continued flattening of enrollment rather than a steep demographic "cliff," and pointed to internal projections showing the system meeting or exceeding prior forecasts. "We have record enrollment again this next this fall," Perdue said during his presentation.
The immediate budgetary pressure, Perdue told the committee, is a gap between the statutory M&O formula and actual spending. "The formula calls for $8.28 per square foot," Perdue said, but recent spending averages about "$16.37 per square foot." He urged the committee to…
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