University gets everything it needs--nothing it wants
CANYON, TEXAS -- With the Texas legislature done for the year, we wondered how West Texas A&M fared - financially.
Here's what we found; although the University did get all its regular funding, WT President J Patrick O'Brien told ProNews Seven the school did not receive any specialized funding.
So the University is re-allocating funds to get new projects started, like a new engineering building.
"What we are going to do is to re-allocate some of the funds we get from the legislature, and some of the funds we have from external sources and we should be able to find at least some to fund the initial renovation of the building," O'Brien said, "and we're starting right away."
O'Brien also says he is setting a new goal for the University - for 10,000 students by the year 2014, which is an increase on a goal he had already set.
"We revisited the goal the other day, it's at the sub-committee of the planning committee, so it's not yet at the planning committee, but it's 10,000 by 2014. So we're progressing, " said O'Brien.
