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Chancellor outlines DeWine budget for higher education, highlights merit aid, employment-based performance funding and campus right-sizing
Summary
Chancellor Mike Duffy told the Senate Higher Education Committee the governor's FY26–27 budget keeps student-focused aid, expands performance metrics to include post-graduation wages and proposes an $82 million revolving loan fund for campus square-footage reductions while defending guarantees for merit awards and admissions.
Chancellor Mike Duffy presented Governor DeWine's executive budget for higher education to the Senate Higher Education Committee, saying the plan centers on student-focused investments to retain Ohio talent and align college incentives with labor-market outcomes. "This is return on investment. This is a workforce focus," Duffy said as he described measures intended to tie state funding to measurable student outcomes.
The budget would maintain key need-based aid and scholarships while adding new performance metrics. Duffy outlined the Governor's Merit Scholarship — $5,000 per year for students in the top 5% of each high school class who remain in Ohio — and said the program has produced high acceptance rates (76% in its first year, 87% in the second), which he…
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