The 2016 supplemental budget bill included funding for two University requested FY17 initiatives: $800,000 ongoing for Health Training Restoration and $2.6 million for Mining Innovation Minnesota.
View a comparison of proposals and the outcome.
Cyber Security
$19 million one-time
Upgrade the University’s network to improve data protection systemwide for students, faculty, staff, and public users. Current security equipment is near the end of its useful life and will be unable to meet exponentially growing technology needs. New firewalls and threat monitoring systems will protect sensitive research, academic, and operational data.
Health Training Restoration
$10.5 million recurring
Restore funding for two critical health programs formerly financially supported by UCare:
- Family medicine clinical training, education, and research in Duluth, Mankato, Minneapolis, and St. Paul.
- The Mobile Dental Clinic, a bus staffed by faculty and supervised students, which travels across our state providing preventive and primary dental care to underserved communities. Last year, the clinic served over 1,229 Minnesotans and provided over 5,403 dental procedures.
Mining Innovation Minnesota
$3.6 million recurring
Revitalize Minnesota’s mining region through research coordinated with key stakeholders to maximize resource recovery, diversify our state’s mineral opportunity portfolio to include higher value metallic products, and create remediation technologies to reduce sulfate in our water.
Healthy Minnesota
$3.25 million recurring and $2.5 million one-time
Improve access to quality health care across Minnesota:
- Invest in the Community University Health Care Clinic, which educates over 230 Academic Health Center students and residents per year in an innovative, interdisciplinary setting.
- Invest in the Rural Dentist Associate Program, which supports training sites in underserved greater Minnesota communities.