Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
PULLMAN, WA - Washington State University says it’s going to find the money to keep a learning center in Yakima open. Glenn Mosley reports. (:50 SOQ)
Funding for the Deccio Higher Education Learning Center had been cuts as part of the university’s overall $54 million dollar budget reduction. In fact, WSU had decided to close all of its learning centers across Washington.
But Tuesday WSU announced that it will reopen the Yakima learning center in January. The university will find the $90,000 needed to operate the facility through an internal reallocation of existing funds.
WSU President Elson Floyd says that students, and community and business leaders in Yakima, convinced WSU of the learning center’s importance to the Yakima area. He said the center’s impact justifies the money needed to reopen it.
Floyd says the university has no plans to reopen any of its other higher education learning centers in Washington that had to be closed because of budget cuts.
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