Senate budget guts funding for UTRGV School of Medicine
MCALLEN, RGV – State senators look set to take up their version of the state budget on Tuesday and, as things stand, it looks very bleak for UT-Rio Grande Valley’s School of Medicine.
UTRGV asked for $60 million for the School of Medicine for the next biennium, which is the amount the school received during the last legislative session. The Senate budget provides $25 million.
UTRGV Vice President Veronica Gonzales is monitoring the budget process closely. Gonzales, a former state legislator, is drafting an op-ed to be signed by county judges and business leaders that will urge state leaders to provide adequate funding for the School of Medicine.
“State funding is critical to UTRGV’s School of Medicine as it ramps up its operations, just as it is for every new medical school,” Gonzales told the Rio Grande Guardian.
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