UofL plays chicken with state and local officials.
[Addendum, June 14. On reading this morning’s printed report in the Courier-Journal, I clearly misinterpreted the University’s motivation. This was no hat-in-hand response to community criticism, but a continuation of the threatening and even bullying behaviors of the past.]
This evening, the Courier-Journal reported on its website that at a earlier meeting with its editorial board, officials of the Medical School and presumably its Hospital, said that they will “cut in half the money they give the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center, ” from $11 to $5.5 Million. They follow up with an additional statement that perhaps next year they might decrease that amount even more! At the time I was interviewed, I initially [and incorrectly] assumed that the University felt compelled to make some reduction in response to criticism from the community about its funding of research at a time when it was crying poor! It was increasingly hard to swallow the Hospital’s claim of having not enough money for indigent care when they were giving in excess of $12 million to research every year! Continue reading “University Hospital Cuts Funding to UofL for Teaching: Or Did It?”