The Difference Between "Budget Total" and "Total Budget" Apparently Matters for Community Colleges

This article, "Who Controls Community College Budgets," is from Inside Higher Education by Doug Lederman.

The state’s highest court ruled last week that the SUNY system’s Board of Regents was within its rights in 2003 when it issued regulations that limited county governments to approving the “budget total” rather than the “total budget” of their local community colleges. In New York’s higher education governance structure, county and local governments “sponsor” two-year colleges and have final say over their budgets, which are set and administered by the state university system.