Ben Unglesbee

2 weeks ago | highereddive.com | Ben Unglesbee

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. University of Nebraska System leaders aim to raise tuition and cut millions of dollars from the institution’s budget after state allocations fell well short of inflation and their request. Its fiscal 2026 budget proposal calls for $20 million in spending cuts to the four-campus system’s core budget and a 5% average tuition increase.The state’s board of regents plans to vote on the budget at a meeting next Thursday.

2 weeks ago | highereddive.com | Ben Unglesbee

Guilford College is scrambling to raise cash and balance its budget amid an anticipated decline in enrollment revenue. The college needs to provide a balanced fiscal 2026 budget by December in order to remain accredited. Describing the institution as “between the proverbial rock and a hard place,” Acting President Jean Bordewich said this week in a community message that the institution’s fiscal 2026 budget will “almost certainly” need cost cuts to meet a projected revenue dip.

2 weeks ago | highereddive.com | Ben Unglesbee

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Northwestern University is rolling out a host of new cuts and savings measures as it grapples with “an increasing strain” on its finances, university leaders said in a community message Tuesday. Measures include a pause on employee raises, a hiring freeze on faculty and staff, unspecified health insurance changes, reduced capital spending, and diminished budgets for academic and administrative units, according to officials.

2 weeks ago | highereddive.com | Ben Unglesbee

Facing both federal and state funding cuts, University of Minnesota officials are looking to raise tuition and cut academic program funding to balance the budget, the public institution announced last week. A $5.1 billion budget proposal for fiscal 2026 would raise in-state tuition prices forundergraduates and graduates by 6.5% atthe university’s Rochester and flagship Twin Cities campuses, with slightly lower increases on undergraduate tuition at the Crookston, Duluth and Morris campuses.

2 weeks ago | highereddive.com | Ben Unglesbee

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Illinois lawmakers passed a bill creating a direct admissions program that will send automatic acceptance offers for public universities to high school and community college students who meet GPA criteria.Nine public universities are part of the program, which is set to launch for the 2027-28 academic year.