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Idaho State presents FY2026 request focused on enrollment, capacity enhancements and student-success investments
Summary
Legislative staff and Idaho State University officials presented FY2026 budget details, noting technical reporting errors in tuition fund slides, personnel-heavy spending, and requests for operational capacity enhancement and enrollment-workload adjustments.
Legislative staff and Idaho State University officials briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Jan. 29 about ISU’s FY2026 budget request, enrollment trends and investments targeted at student success and health sciences.
Kevin Campbell of the Legislative Services Office opened with an overview of ISU’s finances, telling the committee ISU has an enrollment of “more than 12,000 students,” is supported by roughly 1,244 full-time equivalent positions, and has a base budget the presentation listed as $171,100,000. Campbell flagged a technical error in the tuition-and-fees fund slide and said he is “CILTAC tracking down the problem,” but that the underlying tuition revenue and expenditures appear correct and “ISU has not overdrawn its bank account.”
Why it matters: ISU’s budget priorities and how the…
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