January 27, 2017 Dear Colleagues: Over the past few months I have written to you about the state’s fiscal challenges and their likely impact on the University of Nebraska. While state leaders are in the early stages of building a two-year budget package, we are clearly navigating a difficult period. Even flat funding to the university would require us to make tens of millions of dollars in cuts, given our unavoidable rising costs and our commitment to remaining … [Read more...] about President Bounds: Budget Response Team, task forces examine operations