In his budget address today, Gov. Tom Corbett proposed a $27.3 billion budget. But the overall budget – which stood at $28.2 billion last year – may be decreasing in a way that directly affects Temple students.

Temple, the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University and Lincoln University may lose more than 50 percent of state funding if the budget is agreed upon by the legislature and the governor in the coming weeks.

Last year, Temple received $178.5 million in state appropriation funding. Cut in half, that is just $89.25 million.

On Oct. 21, Temple sent its annual appropriation request to the Pennsylvania Department of Education for the 2011-12 fiscal year, asking for a 6.4 percent increase in state appropriation funds, which would total approximately $189 million.