Kansas State University will receive over $17.8 million in Federal SPARK grants from the CARES Act.
The Kansas Board of Regents Thursday approved allocations of $55.5 million dollars in grants to public universities, community and technical colleges. Vice President for Finance & Administration Elaine Frisbie explains how the funds can be utilized.
“The purpose of these funds are entirely for our campuses to safely open for fall, making improvements to classrooms, buying PPE for staff and students, as well as doing coronavirus testing for our campuses,” she said.
During Thursday’s edition of In Focus, K-State Vice President in the Division of Marketing & Communications Jeffery Morris said the COVID-19 pandemic has cost the university an estimated $90 million.
“So the money that we would get from our federal partners would be very welcomed to help us keep people employed, to keep the university running and delivering the quality education that our students deserve,” he said.
Manhattan Area Technical College is receiving $208,000, Highland Community College is receiving $374,000 and Cloud County Community College is receiving $256,000.
Also approved was allocations for more than $26 million from the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund by the U.S. Department of Education. K-State is receiving close to $6.7 million from that.
“The whole system lost $46 million in budget allotments for the piece of the university reductions, then the amounts you see in the table reflect the allotments that were applied to the campuses,” Frisbie said.
All recipients must spend their funds by the end of September 2021.
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