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We take you today to the online November/December edition of Indiana Alumni magazine to read managing editor Mike Wright’s feature, “On the Cutting Edge,” to find out how “IU has scrimped and saved, stretched and squeezed, to get through state budget reductions.” Wright has interviewed students, parents, state policymakers and university administrators, including Judy Palmer, IU vice president and chief financial officer, about the recession and the dwindling state surplus, their effects on the university and projections for the future. There’s a link, too, to a sidebar interview with IU President Myles Brand relating state support of higher education to Hoosier economic development. Want to talk to your state legislator about investing in higher education? Hoosiers for Higher Education will help you out, with a Web site containing legislators’ electronic addresses
http://www.indiana.edu/~hhe
A story on HHE also appears online in the current edition of Indiana Alumni.