OMAHA, Neb. —

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents held its meeting Friday morning and heard from several staff members about budget cuts.

The university must cut $27.5 million out of its budget. The plans would eliminate six programs across several different departments.

"I never again want to hear what a difficult decision-making process it has been for members of the higher administration who have no skin in the game, whose loved ones aren't suffering to be here at this meeting to keep begging to do my increasingly thankless job when I could be studying Nebraska's groundwater resources. I could be mentoring students right now. I could be holding my baby," said Erin Hacker, a member of the UNL faculty.

Members of the public also commented on Elizabeth O'Connor remaining in h

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