LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Instead of committing $2 million to a project the University of Kansas didn’t request, state lawmakers should have used the money on something else more important to the school, a member of the state’s Board of Regents said.

In its recently completed session, the Legislature approved an appropriations bill that cuts higher education funding by $66 million over two years, The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/14G7Zl8) reported. Legislators also approved spending $2 million over the same span to create the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center at Kansas University Medical Center.