Premier Andrew Furey says he is looking to restore some stability at Memorial University following calls for government to restore some of their funding.
MUNSU, MUNFA and the Interim President, Dr. Neil Bose, met with Furey last week—a meeting which the Premier calls “unprecedented.”
At that meeting, he committed to revisiting the issue of funding at MUN.
Furey says his messaging at the meeting was that this is a time of instability for the university, and he has offered government support to alleviate some of that.
He says they do not want issues with funding to create more instability as that will harm the university’s reputation. Furey says they will be speaking with all the various stakeholders, including the board of regents.
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PC education critic Barry Petten says the Liberal Government are the ones who decreased funding, so they should be the ones to talk about increasing it.
Petten believes the bigger issue at play here is MUN’s own financial situation and he’s more interested in what the Auditor General has to say about MUN’s overall financial situation.
Meanwhile, there is an open house tonight at MUN with students, faculty, administration and government expected to attend.
