Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — Richard Horsley, a professor and head of the Plant Sciences Department at North Dakota State University, and Douglas Dawes, vice president for business affairs at Valley City State University, talk with Bloomberg’s Jennifer Oldham about the condition of their school’s facilities.
As the biggest energy boom in North Dakota’s history strains infrastructure, the state’s 11 public universities face an $808 million maintenance backlog. (Source: Bloomberg)
North Dakota is struggling to
finance deteriorating public universities even as it experiences
the biggest energy boom in its history, raising concern that
less prosperous states will face more serious funding
challenges.
August 27th, 2014 at 8:24 am
From Bloomberg, Aug 27, 2014, 12:01:00 AM
As the biggest energy boom in North Dakota’s history strains infrastructure, the state’s 11 public universities face an $808 million maintenance backlog. (Source: Bloomberg)
North Dakota is struggling to
finance deteriorating public universities even as it experiences
the biggest energy boom in its history, raising concern that
less prosperous states will face more serious funding
challenges.
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