Statement from Wichita State University President John Bardo on Governor Brownback’s budget announcement

“Wichita State University is committed to accelerating the growth of the Kansas economy by providing high quality applied learning opportunities to every student and preparing a creative, entrepreneurial, tech-savvy workforce. We are seeing great early success in creating partnerships with industry for our new Innovation Campus. The budget decision announced today is unfortunate, and could slow us down a bit, but we are moving forward with our plans to support the people of Kansas.”