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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, august 23, 1978
Regents accept Roskens' budget proposal, raise tuition
By Brenda Moskovits
While many UNL students were in their
hometowns forgetting about homework
and tuition, university decision-making
continued.
The NU Board of Regents approved a
1979-80 budget proposal which asks the
state for over $112 million and asks stu
dents for an additional $3 per credit hour.
NU President Ronald Roskens' budget
proposal, accepted at the Regents' July
meeting, includes a 4 percent increase in
state financing from $107,794,944 re
ceived this fiscal year to $122,099,191.
If a 6.5 percent proposed tuition in
crease is approved by the Legislature, Ne
braska students will pay $24 a credit
hour (from $22.50) next year and out-of-state
students will pay $65 a credit hour
(from $61).
Medical student tuition would increase
by $450 next year under the budget pro
posals. Request $2 million
Also included in the request is $2
million from the state's general fund to re
place university cash balances used for
salary increases last year.
Roskens said he requested a tuition in
crease "with great reluctance. We added in
an inflation factor based on the best evi
dence we could find."
Another factor in the increase is "the
national trend toward smaller credit hour
loads," Roskens said.
"Many beyond the traditional college
age are coming back or starting college ca
reers," he said.
These students are taking fewer credit
hours per semester, creating a lower university-wide
credit hour total on which tui
tion is based, Roskens said.
Had no tuition increase been approved,
the university would have needed a 5.3 per-
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cent (compared to four percent- increase
in state financing, to $113,503,365, ac
cording to a release from Roskens' office.
"We simply didn't feel we could ask for
all that from the state treasury," he said.
NU highest tuition
Last year, NU had the highest in-state
tuition in the Big Eight, according to Ros
kens. Although unsure of what other Big
Eight tuition .akes would be, Roskens said
"there is no doubt we're one of the
highest."
"We really have a very minimal budget
request just to keep abreast of where we
are," Roskens said.
The budget maintains present services,
but provides for no new ones, he said.
Regent Robert Simmons of Scottsbluff,
voting against the proposal, said this would
be the fourth year in a row the budget of
fered no improvements. Regent Robert
Prokop of Wilber also opposed the request.
The budget also includes no specific
amount for salary increases, Roskens said.
"Recognizing the economic circum
stances of the state, we decided because we
had given great emphasis to salary improve
ment in recent years, we would not place
great emphasis on that this year," he said.
Employees get increase
The proposed budget asked that univer
sity employees receive the same salary in
crease awarded to all other state employees.
"Our requests in recent years have been
in amounts that exceed that," Roskens
said. "Frankly, we are somewhat behind
(in faculty salaries) in reference to like in-,
stitutions."
If approved, salary increases would not
be "across the board" but would take into
account merit considerations," Roskens
said.
Estimated increases included in the bud
get are:
-Over $5.7 million to account for eioh
percent inflation of purchased goods, in
cluding medical supplies, utilities and
postage which are expected to increase
above eight percent.
-$45,000 to operate the agricultural
engineering annex for the rest of its first
year.
-$423,712 to operate the UNO Health,
Physical Education and Recreation Build
ing opening in September, 1979.
-$270,000 for additional staff to keep
pace with increased enrollment at the In
stitute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources. -$116,500 for taking over the last
phase of academic programs transferred
from student fees to general funding.
-$215,750 to bring womens' athletic
programs in compliance with Title IX
regulations.
-$165,000 to operate the new Student
Information System.
-$200,000 in additional costs for con
tracting Nebraska veterinary students to
study at other institutions.
-$141,310 to begin tuition waivers for
graduate assistants and to begin a summer
graduate assistant program at UNO.
Construction budget approved
Also approved over the summer was a
$9.7 million capital construction budget
to be submitted to the legislature for 1979
80. '
Included in the request would be $1.5
million for a water chiller to cool the
east campus, $ 1 million to remodel Bessey
Hall, $750,000 to convert the former UNO
Library to offices, $678,000 to remodel
the old Medical Center nursing college,
$600,000 to buy properties within
proposed boundaries of UNO west expan
sion and $472,000 to buy the Hattie B.
Monroe Pavillion at the Medical Center,
according to Roskens.
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