Funds grants to minority and disadvantaged students. Funds building maintenance operation. State funded form of student assistance which provides the match for the Federal Perkins loan program. Grants to assist in the retention of minority undergraduate students. Funds heating fuels and utilities for all instructional and administrative buildings.
State funded appropriation whose primary source of funds is tax revenue and tuition.
Funds laboratory modernization, classroom modernization and general computer access funds. General Purpose Revenue supported program to provide matching funds for the distinguished professorship program. The 1996-97 allocation for classified pay plan increases included funding for this item for the half of the fiscal year that the increases were effective. This allocation provides the balance of the funding to cover the ongoing cost of the increase. This allocation provides funding of the ongoing costs of the 1994-95 pay plan which was insufficiently funded by the use of statewide increase percentages to calculate the cost of placing employees on a grid system and increased compensation.