Cuts come at bad time, officials say
By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter
Gov. Ben Nelson’s proposal to cut
state appropriations to the University
of Nebraska may trip NU just as it was
beginning to regain its footing, an
official said.
NU President Martin Massengale
said the proposed cuts came just as the
university was beginning to recover
from budget cuts in the mid-1980s.
“We had just reclaimed lost
ground,” he said, “and now we’re
* looking at more cuts.”
Joe Rowson, director of public af
fairs at NU, said the budget cuts in the
mid-1980s were especially difficult
because they came in the middle of
the fiscal year.
Plans for maintenance and new
supplies had to be put off, Rowson
said. But the most significant result of
the 1980s cuts, he said, was NU fall
ing behind its peer institutions in fac
ulty salaries.
“I’d hate to see the pattern we went
through in the mid-1980s resurface,”
he said.
After the series of cuts ended,
Rowson said, the university’s first
goal was to increase faculty salaries
so that it could become coihpetilive
with its peers. '
“The university regained its posi
tion in terms of salaries,” he said,
“and it was just beginning to get back
on track with deferred maintenance
and supplies.”
The new budget cuts again are
hitting during the middle of the fiscal
year, Rowson said, and they will af
fect NU’s operational budget, which
includes maintenance and supplies.
Massengale said mid-year budget
cuts were especially painful.
Salaries cannot be decreased dur
ing the middle of a year, he said,
because faculty are already teaching
courses. Therefore, maintenance and
supplies purchases must wait, he said.
Nelson’s proposal also called for a
two-year delay in university capital
construction projects, including reno
vation of the Arts and Sciences Build
ing at UNO and construction of addi
tional classrooms at UNK.
But Rowson said Massengale pro
posed a plan that would begin con
struction as scheduled, but delay the
repayment of the construction bonds.
Rowson said Massengale was hop
ing to take advantage of low interest
rates and stretch the repayment of the
bonds over a longer period of time.
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