2018 budget won't fund MU Medical School

      (AP) – Gov. Eric Greitens’ current budget proposal for the

state’s 2018 fiscal year won’t fund the new expansions for the University of

Missouri Medical School.

      The Columbia Missourian reports that the information comes on the heels of

the governor’s January announcement to withhold $4 million of the MU Cooperative

Medicine Program’s $10 million appropriation for the current fiscal year.

      Weldon Webb, the university’s associate dean for Springfield Clinical Campus

Implementation, says the Columbia facility and the new Springfield campus could

face tight operating budgets and increased difficulty hiring faculty if state

funding is halted.

      Webb says the medical school’s expansions will proceed as planned for now, and

that the funding loss won’t affect construction of the university’s

Patient-Centered Care Learning Center. The $42.5 million facility is expected to

be complete this summer.

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