Alabama supplemental appropriation amounts awarded

[roaringsince96]

$58.2 million for the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa: $46 million for the Center for High Performance Computing and $6.4 million for a training center for electric vehicles,
$58.2 million for the University of Alabama at Birmingham, including $50 million for emergency room expansion,
$58.2 million for Auburn University, including $32.4 million for maintenance and capital expenditures, $20 million to complete the Brown-Kopel Lab,
$36.9 million to the University of South Alabama,
$33.5 million to Troy University,
$19.3 million for the University of Alabama at Huntsville to build the Education and Advanced Training Complex,
$17.7 million to Jacksonville State University of which $3 million is for campus and pedestrian safety and $8.3 million is for facility needs,
$15.2 million to the University of North Alabama,
$11 million to Alabama A&M University for facility needs,
$11.2 million to Auburn University at Montgomery for facility needs,
$10.6 million to the University of West Alabama,
$8.4 million to Alabama State University for construction and maintenance,
$7 million for Tuskegee University,
$6.8 million for Athens State University, and
$5.5 million for the University of Montevallo

[unalions]

So UNA gets $43M less than Alabama. WTF?

It should be the opposite.

[unafied]

I only have a vague understanding of how this works, but I guess my biggest confusion is with the line that keeps getting repeated. "They" say that we are (or were) the lowest funded of any four-year school. Obviously there's a couple of four-year schools on there lower than us, so I guess that statement wasn't always true... or we've done the work to at least move up a few rungs on the ladder.

I guess my question is, does the funding not change based on needs? Like, maybe South Alabama has a project planned this year that requires more funding. But next year they receive less and we receive more. Why does it not seem to work that way? I know, I know... politics. The Shoals NEVER seems to have good representation in Montgomery. I'm sure that's part of it, but you'd think this funding would be more needs-based instead of just "this is what we've always done", as it seems to be.

Don't want to get political, so if that paragraph is even too much I'll delete... but man it's frustrating to see us always lagging behind the others.

[brandon]

Mar 24, 2023 6:09:47 GMT -6 unafied said:

I only have a vague understanding of how this works, but I guess my biggest confusion is with the line that keeps getting repeated. "They" say that we are (or were) the lowest funded of any four-year school. Obviously there's a couple of four-year schools on there lower than us, so I guess that statement wasn't always true... or we've done the work to at least move up a few rungs on the ladder.

I guess my question is, does the funding not change based on needs? Like, maybe South Alabama has a project planned this year that requires more funding. But next year they receive less and we receive more. Why does it not seem to work that way? I know, I know... politics. The Shoals NEVER seems to have good representation in Montgomery. I'm sure that's part of it, but you'd think this funding would be more needs-based instead of just "this is what we've always done", as it seems to be.

Don't want to get political, so if that paragraph is even too much I'll delete... but man it's frustrating to see us always lagging behind the others.

I remember the last one I looked at we got like 4.2 or so million.

[roaringsince96]

Looks like with our new Math building and some of our upgrades we would have been closer to Troy. The big schools always get the big money. Troy and South Alabama getting double the money of North Alabama is disappointing. I know North Alabama endowment is healthy at $53 million, but Troy is at $152 million. In contrast Jax State is less than $20 million on everything I can find. 2020 shows $14 million.

[brandon]

Mar 24, 2023 7:32:44 GMT -6 roaringsince96 said:

Looks like with our new Math building and some of our upgrades we would have been closer to Troy. The big schools always get the big money. Troy and South Alabama getting double the money of North Alabama is disappointing. I know North Alabama endowment is healthy at $53 million, but Troy is at $152 million. In contrast Jax State is less than $20 million on everything I can find. 2020 shows $14 million.

If you look at Alabama. 46 of the 58 million is earmarked for a big project that had to get approved by the state to fund...

So other than that one project, Alabama gets 12 million.