Percentage of URI Budget From RI General Revenue
- From 1950 to 1971, URI’s total budget was often >50% from RI general revenues.
- As recently as 2004, URI received 20.2% of its budget from RI general revenues.
- In FY2011, 10.5% of URI’s budget was general revenue.
- State support was halved between 2004 and 2011; on this trajectory, URI would be fully privatized (zero state support) by 2019, making RI unique in the US for having no public state university.
- The Governor's recommendation for 2012 was 10.9%.
Sources:
- 1950-2009 Rhode Island State Budgets (URI Library)
- 2011 budget as enacted
- 2012 Governor's Recommendation (see pages 28 (summary) and 235 (URI))
- Excel spreadsheet and chart