Final Budget Reduction Plan

Jan. 11, 2024

Instructional Efficiency
Increase instructional efficiencies (through evaluating course enrollments, capacity and frequency of offering, streamlining elective curricular options, or some combination of these strategies) and reduce costs including reducing the need for temporary instruction (defined in the job categories of Lecturer, Lecturer/T, and Teaching Assistants).
$2,014,733
Graduate Student/Student Worker Pools
Reduce state-aided funding for graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants.
$923,816
Lecturer and Lecturer/T Funding
Reduce state-aided funding for temporary instruction.
$515,829
Operating Budget
Reduce state-aided operating budgets.
$300,000
Move Graduate Student Pools to Alternative Funding
Reduce state-aided funding for graduate assistants; transfer to alternative funding source.
$275,088
Operational Efficiency $1,443,870
Zero-Based Budgeting reductions
State-aided funding reductions as part of careful review of existing budgets through modified zero-based budget process. These non-academic (operational) areas were reviewed: information technology, facilities, public relations and communications, business operations and student services.
$809,103
Operating Budget
Reduce state-aided operating budget.
$179,259
Filled Staff Positions
Eliminate filled state-aided staff positions (2.0 FTE).
$161,143
Vacant Staff Positions
Eliminate vacant state-aided staff positions (2.5 FTE).
$156,918
Move Staff Positions to Alternative Funding
Reduce state-aided funds for staff positions; transfer to alternative funding source (2.07 FTE).
$137,447
Diversity & Inclusion
Restructure UNL’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion to primarily support university-wide priorities and initiatives with a greater focus on DEI efforts occurring at the college and unit levels.
$800,000
Filled Staff Positions
Eliminate filled state-aided staff positions (3.0 FTE).
$395,333
Move Staff Positions to Alternative Funding
Reduce state-aided funds for staff positions; transfer to alternative funding source in different unit (4.0 FTE).
$231,978
Operating Budget
Reduce state-aided operating budget.
$172,689
Undergraduate Education & Student Success $460,000
Move Staff Positions to Alternative Funding
Reduce state-aided funds for staff positions; transfer to alternative funding source (2.0 FTE).
$133,654
Filled Staff Positions
Eliminate filled state-funded staff positions (2.0 FTE).
$125,000
Vacant Staff Positions
Eliminate vacant state-aided staff positions (2.0 FTE).
$105,484
Filled Administrative Position
Eliminate state-aided administrative position (0.47 FTE).
$95,862
Student Affairs $139,496
Vacant Staff Positions
Eliminate vacant state-aided staff positions (2.0 FTE).
$101,859
Move Staff Position to Alternative Funding
Reduce state-aided funding for staff position; transfer to alternative funding source (0.59 FTE).
$37,637
Research & Economic Development
Move Staff Positions to Alternative Funding
Reduce state-aided funding for staff positions; transfer to alternative funding source (2.68 FTE).
$194,315
Administrative Costs $2,907,281
Move Staff Positions to Alternative Funding
Reduce state-aided funding for staff positions; transfer to alternative funding source (9.0 FTE).
$978,828
Reduce Academic Administration
Reduce state-aided funding for academic-administrative positions by eliminating vacant positions (1.33 FTE); reducing filled positions (0.50 FTE), and reducing funding for stipends and summer administrative work.
$931,208
Vacant Staff Positions
Eliminate vacant state-aided staff positions (7.45 FTE).
$557,530
Operating Budget
Reduce state-aided operating budgets.
$346,167
Filled Staff Position
Eliminate filled state-funded staff position (1.0 FTE).
$93,548
Executive Vice Chancellor Units $2,890,305
Vacant Faculty Budget
Eliminate state-aided funding for faculty positions, planned separations and retirements.
$2,496,647
Operating Budget
Reduce state-aided operating budgets.
$237,907
Move Faculty Position to Alternative Funding
Reduce state-aided funding for faculty position; transfer to alternative funding source (0.93 FTE).
$133,723
Vacant Staff Position
Eliminate vacant state-aided staff position (0.81 FTE).
$22,028
IANR Units
Rebase Unit Budgets, Reduce and Reorganize Operations
$1,150,000
Operating Budget
Reduce state-aided funding for non-academic IANR units by reducing state-funded operating budgets, eliminating vacant staff positions (3.65 FTE), eliminating vacant faculty positions (1.0 FTE); and transferring staff line to alternative funding source (0.9 FTE), and streamline support operations.
$1,150,000
Grand Total $12,000,000
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