UNI Legislative Update
The Office of Governmental Relations provides legislative updates to the campus community through online communication and bimonthly campus presentations. These updates will inform faculty, staff and students of hot topics facing the legislature and legislative actions affecting UNI and the Regents institutions.
April 26, 2008
Legislature going through the night
It's after midnight here at the Capitol and we are listening to the Senate debate the salary bill which will be used to fund the mandatory salary increases for our faculty and staff. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the salary bill is the most important factor when determining tuition. If the salary bill is adequately funded, tuition increases have a greater chance of remaining low and predictable.
The good news so far for us is the current language in the bill has roughly $88 million to be spread out among all state agencies for salary increases. The Governor has said publicly that he intends to fund the Regents to the tune of 90% of their salary needs which will give us $41.9 million for salaries.