Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Provost Bud Fischer (left to right), Susan Howarth, executive vice president for strategy, operations and finance, and President Timothy Caboni present the proposed 2024-2025 budget to the regents on June 7, 2024, in Jody Richards Hall. Photo by Cameron Shaw.
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President Timothy Caboni waits to speak at his annual meeting with the universities staff senate in the Student Government Association chambers in Downing Student Union on Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2024.
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Bailey Reed, Newsletter Editor
Good morning, Hilltoppers.
Read on for a grouping of WKU budget overspending stories as well as a piece on the new Gordon Ford College of Business and a sports roundup Happy Wednesday!
WKU overspent generated revenues by $3.9 million in 20232024, documents show
Western Kentucky University spent nearly $4 million more than the revenue it generated during the 2023-2024 academic year, according to university budget executives. This information comes over two months after the Herald first inquired about where the university stood at the end of fiscal year 2024
On Sept. 4, WKU President Timothy Caboni announced in front of the university’s Staff Senate that three university units overspent their budgets during FY24, which ran from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, encompassing the 2023-2024 academic year.
Caboni told the senate that the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, the athletics department, and the university’s Division of Enrollment and Student Experience each overspent their budget, but did not provide any other information.
Open
Letter to the WKU
Board
of Regents: It’s time for real transparency from Caboni and WKU administration
A central pillar of being a public institution is meeting the simple expectation of letting stakeholders and taxpayers know their money is being spent judiciously WKU continues to show that it feels it is above meeting the level of transparency promised to campus over and over again It has shown itself as lacking the basic decency to provide answers to simple questions posed by members of the WKU community, and it has shown to fundamentally not respect the students, faculty,
staff, alumni and taxpayers who support it. For over two months, the College Heights Herald sought answers to a simple question: where did WKU stand financially at the conclusion of the 2023-2024 academic year?
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WKU spends over $241,000 for Flo Rida performance
Invoices show WKU spent a total of $241,196.60 for Flo Rida’s Oct 30 South Lawn concert Flo Rida was directly paid $150,000 for the free performance The remaining $91,196 60 included but were not limited to expenditures for audio-visual equipment, alcohol, food, security and lodging for the performer and his team
According to the contract between WKU and the agency representing Flo Rida, the university was responsible for additional costs relating to the performance in addition to the amount paid to the artist
