The University of Nebraska would receive state funding to cover core needs like health insurance, utilities and general operations under a two-year budget request approved Friday by the Board of Regents. The university’s biennial budget request, which is due to Gov. Pete Ricketts and the Legislature by Sept. 15, seeks increases in state funding of 3 percent in 2019-20 and 3.7 percent in 2020-21. President Hank Bounds said the request is the result of careful work by university … [Read more...]
Cuts hold spending growth to zero in proposed 2018-19 University budget
President Bounds expresses concern about upcoming two-year budget cycle: ‘Our options for managing further cuts are limited’ Tens of millions of dollars in administrative cuts, continued restraint in hiring and purchasing, and other steps to manage reductions in state funding will hold the University of Nebraska’s spending growth to near zero under a proposed 2018-19 operating budget released today by President Hank Bounds. The proposed budget, which will be considered by the Board of … [Read more...]
Outreach, enrollment important to new UNK Faculty Senate President Grace Mims
“I think we have some work to do to make sure the public understands the role of public education in this state." - Grace Mims By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Grace Mims knows she has big shoes to fill on the University of Nebraska at Kearney Faculty Senate. The counseling and school psychology professor and department chair will serve as the group’s president for the 2018-19 academic year, replacing associate political science professor Claude Louishomme, who held the … [Read more...]
I Love NU Advocacy Day: University supporters share message at state Capitol
By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications LINCOLN – Four generations of Morgan Daubert’s family have ties to the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She doesn’t want that tradition to end with her. “Being able to follow in their footsteps is something I’m worried my kids may not be able to do,” Daubert, a UNK freshman from Omaha, said Tuesday during a meeting with state Sen. John Lowe of Kearney. The K-12 health and physical education major was part of a group of UNK students who made the … [Read more...]
STUDENT VOICE: We students can’t afford our degrees without help
By IVY PRATER UNK Student Body Vice President I am a Nebraskan born and raised. The future of Nebraska, I feel, exists in our higher education system. Gov. Pete Ricketts is targeting the University of Nebraska system with a proposal for additional cuts. NU currently takes up 13 percent of the state’s budget, however, it is receiving one-third of the proposed cuts. As Ricketts outlined in his State of the State speech, Nebraska’s budget has projected a $173 million shortfall. The biennial … [Read more...]
