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The Nebraska Board of Regents on June 20 approved a $3.46 billion budget and a 3.4 percent tuition increase for 2024-25 on a 6 to 2 vote. (Click here for budget documents that were distributed to the Regents.) Regent Kathy… Read moreRegents approve $3.46 billion budget for 2024-25
Faculty who want to help UNL through its budget problems should work on two things, Mike Zeleny, vice chancellor for business and finance, told the Faculty Senate Tuesday, May 7. First, faculty members should do whatever they can to help… Read moreVice chancellor outlines sources of UNL budget problems
The Board of Regents eliminated 17 degrees or programs on three Nebraska University campuses at the April 19 meeting, but the cuts had little to no impact on faculty. Five University of Nebraska-Lincoln programs or degrees were eliminated; four were… Read moreRegents cut 17 degrees or program but few faculty affected
The Faculty Senate narrowly approved a motion April 2 to create the Faculty Budget Committee, which will advise the administration on budget matters and expand faculty access to and knowledge of campus budgeting processes. Sarah Zuckerman, an associate professor of… Read moreSenate votes to create committee to advise on budget
The following proposal was put before the Faculty Senate on March 5, 2024 by Prof. Zuckerman. See our full coverage of this meeting. The Faculty Senate shall create a Faculty Budget Committee (FBC) to advise the administration on all budget-related matters…. Read moreFaculty Budget Committee Proposal
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln was ousted from the Association of American Universities in 2011, the first university to suffer that fate. At the March 5 Faculty Senate meeting, Chancellor Rodney Bennett said the task of regaining membership in the AAU… Read moreChancellor describes long road to rejoining AAU
An interview with Pete Jones, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration and chair of the Faculty Senate Finance Committee at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This interview is part of our series on shared governance in action…. Read moreDon’t Tell Me Your Priorities, Show Me Your Budget: Shared Governance in Action at the University of Alabama – Birmingham
John Bender is Kearns Professor Emeritus of Journalism. The Board of Regents voted to abolish degree programs in geography, theatre and recreation management at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and comments by regents and administrators suggested more cuts are… Read moreRegents terminate degree programs at UNK
At the December 2023 meeting of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, I remarked during the comment period that in education excellence and efficiency are diametrically opposed values. My statement was in response to the former president of the… Read moreExcellence can’t be efficient
John Bender is Kearns Professor Emeritus of Journalism. Complaints about a lack of shared governance and indifference to faculty to concerns were raised by faculty members at the open mic portion of the Faculty Senate meeting Feb. 6. The issues… Read moreFaculty raise alarms about shared governance at Senate meeting
