LINCOLN — University of Nebraska President Jeffrey Gold will not keep a performance-based 15% salary bonus and will instead donate the funds to support campus programs.

Gold announced the decision Friday, a day after the NU Board of Regents voted 6-2 to award him the $159,386 bonus on top of his base salary of $1.06 million. Multiple regents said the question wasn’t whether Gold had earned the bonus. The metrics the regents baked into Gold’s employment contract after each year in office said he had. Instead, some regents said it was a question of how to pay for it.

NU faces a systemwide budget deficit of $20 million, which Gold cited for declining his bonus.

“I am grateful for the strong support of the Board of Regents and inspired every day by our students, faculty and staff,” Gold sai

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