A Publication of the UNL Chapter of AAUP
This is part of a series on the financial analysis of the NU System. Go to the previous post or the next post. Ok, let’s start with the bigger picture, the overall University of Nebraska: UNL, UNO, UNK, UNMC, and… Read more2: Financial Strength of the University of Nebraska System
Part 1: Introduction On October 29, the UNL AAUP chapter released a financial analysis conducted by Dr. Bonnie Fox Garrity, Professor of Business at D’Youville University and member of the Higher Education Expert Panel of the AAUP National. She has… Read moreAAUP Financial Report Revealed
At first glance, the APC’s Recommendations on Proposed Budget Reductions, released to the public on Oct. 31, have bad news for EDAD and TMFD. As a faculty member in EDAD, it certainly felt like bad news to me. Those two… Read moreMaking Sense of the APC Report
You may have heard a version of this old joke: A man is in a terrible accident and is rushed to the hospital. After hours of surgery, the doctor finds the man’s wife in the waiting room. “Good news,” the… Read moreHaphazard Amputation is Not a Leadership Strategy
“At the center of our agenda today is Project Health,” NU President Jeffrey Gold said in his remarks to the Board of Regents at the Oct. 3 meeting. The board’s approval of the intermediate design plan for the massive hospital… Read moreRegents hear faculty complaints about budget-cutting process
Does the budget reduction process truly recognize “the importance of the faculty voice”? After a lot of digging into our own bylaws and established norms, my assessment is that no, it does not. Shared Governance Colleges and universities have never… Read moreUNL’s Proposed Cuts Don’t Follow Established Rules and Norms
Cuts in federal spending on research and small increases in state appropriations for higher education will mean belt-tightening and higher tuition, NU President Jeffrey Gold told the UNL Faculty Senate Tuesday, May 6 Gold said the NU system has lost… Read moreGold outlines NU’s grim budget picture for Faculty Senate
Editors’ note: We were unable to cover the October meeting of the Faculty Senate, but the minutes of that meeting are available here. The UNL AAUP chapter sent out a call for faculty members to show up at the Faculty… Read moreSenators air concerns about opaque budget process
Last spring, I brought a motion to the Faculty Senate to create a Faculty Budget Committee. This idea came to me after reading blog posts from my colleague, Beth Niehaus, a higher education scholar: Participatory Budgeting, A Blueprint for Faculty… Read moreGetting into the Room Where It Happens: The Need for a UNL Faculty Budget Committee
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
