LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) – In the past five years, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has weathered $75 million in cuts. Cuts to staff. Cuts to university libraries. Cuts to colleges that have taught UNL students for more than a century.
But the pain from those cuts, spread over years, likely will be dwarfed by what’s to come, as the state’s flagship university moves to slash $27.5 million by the end of the calendar year.
The total, announced by Chancellor Rodney Bennett in early August, represents nearly 6% of UNL’s state-aided budget. It exceeds the budgets of some entire colleges, including the College of Architecture, the College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the College of Law — combined…