PITTSBURG, Kan. — Advocacy in Topeka has long been one of President Steve Scott’s roles as Pittsburg State University’s top administrator, but his testimony to both the Senate Ways and Means Higher Education Subcommittee and the House Higher Education Budget Committee this week took on a new urgency. The university’s state funding this year is $1.5 million below 2008 funding levels, and Gov. Laura Kelly has proposed an additional $2 million cut to PSU’s budget for FY22.