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Category: Shared Governance

8: Has Anyone Checked the Couch Cushions at Varner Hall?

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 UNL AAUP

This is the last of a series on the financial analysis of the NU System. Go to the previous post. In our continuing analysis of the UNL budget, we’ll be looking at this document, the General Operations Budget for the University… Read more8: Has Anyone Checked the Couch Cushions at Varner Hall?

Budget, Shared Governance

7: Bond Rating

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 UNL AAUP

This is part of a series on the financial analysis of the NU System. Go to the previous post or the next post. This installment of our financial analysis may be the most wonky of all, but it is about one of the… Read more7: Bond Rating

Budget, Shared Governance

6: But Where is the Money Going?

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 UNL AAUP

This is part of a series on the financial analysis of the NU System. Go to the previous post or the next post. And onto Part 6 of the AAUP financial analysis. For this post, we’re going to back to the analysis done… Read more6: But Where is the Money Going?

Budget, Shared Governance

3: What about UNL?

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 UNL 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, so we now have a clearer picture that the whole NU system is on solid financial footing. So solid… Read more3: What about UNL?

Budget, Shared Governance

5: Instructional Investment

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 UNL AAUP

This is part of a series on the financial analysis of the NU System. Go to the previous post or the next post. Whatever you choose to do as a leader, it should be aligned to the vision and the mission of the… Read more5: Instructional Investment

Budget, Shared Governance

4: Expenses

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 UNL AAUP

This is part of a series on the financial analysis of the NU System. Go to the previous post or the next post. Welcome to Part 4 of our analysis of the AAUP budget report. You have made it to the halfway point!… Read more4: Expenses

Budget, Shared Governance

2: Financial Strength of the University of Nebraska System

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 UNL 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

Budget, Shared Governance

AAUP Financial Report Revealed

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025 UNL AAUP

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

Budget, Shared Governance

Haphazard Amputation is Not a Leadership Strategy

October 12, 2025October 12, 2025 Amanda Gailey

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

Academic Freedom, Budget, Shared Governance, Tenure

Frustration, fatalism tinge faculty discussion of budget cuts

October 9, 2025October 9, 2025 John Bender

The pending $27.5 million in budget cuts dominated Chancellor Rodney Bennett’s remarks and faculty comments at the Oct. 7 UNL Faculty Senate meeting. Pervading many of the faculty remarks was a sense of frustration and fatalism about the process. The… Read moreFrustration, fatalism tinge faculty discussion of budget cuts

Academic Freedom, Faculty Senate, Shared Governance, Tenure

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