The University of Nebraska will freeze tuition across the system and invest in strategic priorities including student aid, faculty competitiveness and building maintenance under a proposed 2021-22 operating budget announced today by President Ted Carter. The budget, which will go before the Board of Regents on June 25, continues a multi-year plan built last year by Carter and the chancellors to address fiscal challenges created by COVID-19 while also positioning the … [Read more...] about Tuition freeze, strategic investments highlight 2021-22 university budget
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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 … [Read more...] about I Love NU Advocacy Day: University supporters share message at state Capitol
‘A defining moment in Nebraska’s history’: President Bounds, University supporters testify at NU budget hearing
University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds’ full written testimony to the Appropriations Committee is available here LINCOLN - University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds and Board of Regents Chairman Rob Schafer were joined Wednesday by students, leaders in business and agriculture, community members and other NU supporters in asking members of the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee to make affordable, excellent higher education a priority for Nebraska’s … [Read more...] about ‘A defining moment in Nebraska’s history’: President Bounds, University supporters testify at NU budget hearing
