All,

Thank you for a productive board meeting last Friday.

During the meeting there were a couple of questions that I did not know the precise answers to.   Here they are with answers.

1)What percentage of the UNL budget comes from the state legislature?

                A:  17.3%, ($279,463,559 of $1,615,350,760).

2)What percentage of the UNL budget come from tuition?

                A:  11.8% ($190,946,428 of $1,615,350,760).

3)What percentage of a cut is $20M?

                A:  4.2% of the state aided budget of $471,350,760.

Note that the total annual budget of UNL ($1,615,350,760) includes a lot of other funding sources including athletics (as a cost center), federally funded research, etc..   We refer to the combination of the funds from the state legislature ($279,463,559) and tuition ($190,946,428) as the state aided budget.   The state aided budget is what funds the academic side of the university, so the $20M cut is 4.2% of the academic budget.

4)How is F&A distributed at UNL?

                A:  The typical distribution of F&A at UNL is :

                                73.5% is kept centrally to support university libraries, the Office of Research and Innovation, and other centralized services/organizations.

                                15.9% is kept by the college

                                5.3% goes to the department of the faculty member who writes the grant

                                5.3% goes to the faculty member who writes the grant

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Lance