Bonnie Fox Garrity, a financial analyst with the national American Association of University Professors and a business professor with D'Youville University in Buffalo, New York, leads a news conference presenting a financial analysis she did in October 2025 into the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's budget. Oct. 29, 2025. (Courtesy of UNL AAUP chapter)

LINCOLN — A new external analysis indicates the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the NU system are “financially healthy,” leaving some UNL faculty “scratching our heads” as to why administrators are again seeking to trim 1.8% from the budget.

UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett proposed the $27.5 million in budget cuts in mid-September. The total includes $21 million to eliminate a structural budget deficit that Bennett said had “compounded ove

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