When MSU Texas President Stacia Haynie came back to lead the university, she was well aware of the troubles facing Midwestern State University — and higher education in general — on the budget and enrollment fronts. MSU has been grappling with a growing budget hole that was, at its deepest, over $7.2 million after Haynie took the reins Aug. 1. She estimated the university has pared off about half of that shortfall.
