Elis Fischel still on hold
On Friday, Gov. Jay Nixon released the results of a review of the capital improvement projects at Missouri colleges and universities that are set to receive funds from the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority's sale of assets. And the new Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at MU is still suspended.
According to the release issued by Nixon's office, the budget for the capital improvements is over $118 million, which will be used for 18 of the MOHELA projects, which include UM system projects at Hundley-Whaley Center in Albany, South Farm in Columbia and the Plant Sciences Research Center in Mexico.
After those projects, there will be more than $266,000 left in the fund to complete the remaining the 12 remaining projects, which will be put on hold. The list includes the $31 million Ellis Fischel Cancer Center project. All but two of the projects are UM system projects.
MOHELA has missed all but one of their scheduled payments to the projects fund, and has not fared well financially since the sale of assets.
Chancellor Brady Deaton has said that money from the university's For All We Call Mizzou fundraising campaign.