University of Iowa officials have reinstated scholarships for nearly 25-hundred students after announcing a week ago the scholarships would be cancelled to help balance the university’s budget. The University of Iowa’s president must find a way to pare more than nine MILLION dollars from the current year’s budget. Senate Democratic Leader Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids says Republicans who enacted the budget-cutting plan have put university officials in a pinch.
Last week, nearly 25-hundred scholarships that were NOT awarded based on the student’s financial need were cancelled for the fall semester. Now, the university is reinstating those scholarships for students who got the money because their parents or grandparents graduated from the university or who were transferring in from a community college.
Republican lawmakers like House Speaker Linda Upmeyer criticized the University’s decision to cancel these scholarships.
Upmeyer said Republican legislators made a LOWER cut to the universities than Governor Terry Branstad had recommended in January.
