The University of Colorado system’s Board of Regents approved its $6.84 billion budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year and denounced recent student comments on last year’s firebombing in Boulder during its regular meeting on Thursday.
An increase from last year’s $6.7 billion budget, total allocations include $369.9 million for the Colorado Springs campus, $2.54 billion for the Boulder campus, $407 million for the Denver campus and $3.39 billion for the Anschutz Medical campus in Aurora.
The new budget includes increases to tuition rates, housing and dining fees, and campus financial aid. It also reduces overall research expenditures by $87.1 million across the four campuses, with most of the decreases seen at Boulder ($60.4 million) and Anschutz ($21.2 million)…