{"id":429,"date":"2011-08-30T13:32:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-08-30T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:34:58","slug":"state-funding-declines-college-doubles-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/08\/30\/state-funding-declines-college-doubles-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"State Funding Declines, College Doubles Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Oklahoma State College has more than doubled its budget over the last decade, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/oklahoma.watchdog.org\/2235\/western-oklahoma-state-college-doubles-budget-in-ten-years\/\">report<\/a> filed by Oklahoma Watchdog\u2019s Peter J. Rudy.<\/p><p>The school\u2019s budget ballooned from $6.8 million in FY2003 to $13.9 million in FY2012. The school\u2019s budget decreased in FY2004, but has increased about 10 percent a year since, which Oklahoma Watchdog points out is roughly four times the rate of inflation.<\/p><p>Despite the budget increase, WOSC \u2014 like other state colleges and universities \u2014 is relying less on state funds, and has turned to tuition and fees as its main source of revenue.<\/p><p><!--more-->In FY2003, state appropriations comprised 68 percent of the school\u2019s budget, while 25 percent was raised through tuition and fees.<\/p><p>In FY2012, state appropriations had declined to 44 percent of the school\u2019s budget, while tuition and fees had climbed to 47 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Oklahoma State College has more than doubled its budget over the last decade, according to a report filed by Oklahoma Watchdog\u2019s Peter J. Rudy.The school\u2019s budget ballooned from $6.8 million in FY2003 to $13.9 million in FY2012. The school\u2019s budget decreased in FY2004, but has increased about 10 percent a year since, which Oklahoma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[855,80],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}