Desai: There will be no business referendum to pay for the new building
Business Dean Anand Desai attends a grant announcement at Bank of America Monday.
There is no plan for a second referendum for just business students, Business Dean Anand Desai said Monday at an announcement ceremony for a $250,000 grant for the new business school.
Wichita State administrators had said before that if a campus-wide referendum were to fail — which it did — a second, business-student-only referendum with a larger per-credit-hour fee increase was a possible next step.
Desai said that a plan for how to generate the additional $20 million needed to reach the $50 million goal is still in the works.
The plan may include reallocations of university funds, but “I don’t want to speculate,” Desai said.
“There’s nothing fixed.”
A new plan for the additional $20 million will be unveiled by the end of the spring semester, Desai said.
Andrew Linnabary was the 2018-2019 Digital Managing Editor of The Sunflower. He studied journalism and minored in English. Linnabary is from Wichita, Kansas.
Selena Favela is a former photo editor for The Sunflower. She majored in graphic design. She is from Wichita, Kansas.
