Mississippi universities increasingly depend on tuition

Elizabeth Crisp over at the Clarion Ledger reports that Mississippi universities are increasingly dependent on tuition dollars (and less so on state tax dollars).  She says,

More than 57 percent of general funds for the fiscal year that begins July 1 will come from tuition, while 37 percent will come from state appropriations, according to budgets approved Thursday.

She quotes Hank Bounds (Higher Education Commissioner) who says that ten years ago 54% of the funding came from the state.