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NDUS presents needs-based budget, highlights challenge grant and IT risks
Summary
Chancellor Mark Hagerott and NDUS finance leaders briefed the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division on system priorities including a needs-based budget request, a multi-million-dollar challenge grant, an ERP replacement need and proposed increases for financial aid, inflation and workforce programs.
Chancellor Mark Hagerott, speaking to the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division on Jan. 9, presented the University System Office’s needs-based budget and outlined priorities that include student financial aid, workforce programs and information-technology modernization.
The presentation set context for a $2.838 billion system request (all funds) that the system office has forwarded to the State Board of Higher Education and the governor, and listed principal asks such as challenge grant funding, financial-aid increases and several capital requests.
Why it matters: the NDUS general funding and targeted program requests determine tuition pressure, campus operating capacity and the state’s ability to pay for workforce-related degree production. NDUS leaders told the committee they are balancing enrollment recovery with large one‑time capital needs and legacy IT systems.
Hagerott introduced…
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