Issues
Board of Regents Legislative Appropriations Request for FY 2011
View the detailed request memo
Higher education operating appropriations
- Maintain adequate funding for UNI
- In the past 12 months, UNI has received a budget cut totalling $24 million or roughly 25% of its operating base
- Current funding levels for UNI ($75.4 million) have not been seen since 1998 ($75.9 million)
- Click here to view more detailed messages on the current budget situation
- Maintain stable and predictable tuition rate increases for students and their families
- Lessen the burden of student loans on the student and their families
- Enrich the educational experience for undergraduate students by providing them access to research and scholarship opportunities
- Keep class sizes at UNI at reasonable levels to maintain the quality of education UNI students have grown accustomed to
- Improve student progress toward graduation
- Build on efforts to offer nationally competitive salaries in order to attract and retain the very best faculty members
- The very best faculty and staff are essential to providing exceptional learning opportunities, knowledge dissemination, and economic growth and development in the state of Iowa
Math & Science Initiative
- To improve mathematics and science performance for Iowa’s students
- To prepare and recruit more high quality mathematics and science teachers for Iowa’s schools
- Promote statewide collaboration and cooperation
- Math-Science Initiative Web site
Economic Development
- Graduating an educated, productive workforce
- Providing a supportive business climate
- Enhancing an infrastructure for the new economy