UH SYSTEM REGENTS APPROVE $969 MILLION
BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2006
Four Percent Increase Will Allow More Scholarship Funds,
Additional Faculty, Construction Projects
HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2005 – A $969 million budget for fiscal
year 2006 has been approved by the University of Houston System
Board of Regents.
The action was taken at a Thursday meeting that also saw the election
of Leroy Hermes as the board’s new chair. (A separate release
has been distributed on the board’s new slate of officers.)
This budget, which will cover operations and capital expenditures
at the University of Houston, the University of Houston-Clear Lake,
the University of Houston-Downtown, the University of Houston-Victoria
and the UH System Administration (UHSA), represents a 4.2 percent
increase from the previous year’s total of $930 million. The
UH System is projecting continued enrollment growth, with more than
57,000 students expected for Fall 2005 (FY06) at its four universities
and two teaching centers.
The new budget increases student scholarship funds, expands the
number of full-time faculty members by 4 percent and finances a
number of construction projects within the system.
University by university, the budget (and projected enrollment)
breaks down this way:
• UH -- $716 million (34,868 students)
• UH-Clear Lake -- $80 million (7,901 students)
• UH-Downtown -- $112 million (11,750 students)
• UH-Victoria -- $42 million (2,508 students)
• UH System Administration -- $19 million
UH-Victoria enjoyed the greatest budget rise, with a 58 percent
increase over FY05. This is due, in large part, to $12 million scheduled
for three new construction projects, including a second academic
building at the UHS-Sugar Land Teaching Center. UH-Downtown, which
has been experiencing the greatest enrollment growth within the
system recently, received a 26 percent increase in its overall budget,
including $15 million for the proposed Shea Street Building.
The budget also funded these salary increases: UH and UHSA faculty
and staff 4 percent; UH-Clear Lake faculty and staff 3.5 percent;
UH-Downtown faculty 3 percent and staff 5.5 percent; UH-Victoria
faculty and staff 5.5 percent.
For more information about the UH System, visit http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/
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ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM
The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan
higher education system, encompassing four universities and two
multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University
of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive
research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year
undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate
programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University
of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level
institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land in Fort
Bend and the UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System
includes KUHF-FM, Houston’s National Public Radio and classical
radio station, and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational
television station.
For more information about UH visit the universitys Newsroom
at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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