LINCOLN- The Legislature’s budget-writing Appropriations Committee indicated it will give the University of Nebraska a small bump in state aid after initially considering a 2% cut to the higher education system. On Tuesday, the committee discussed increasing NU’s state appropriations by 1.25% for the 2025-26 fiscal year, boosting state support for the university by $8.7 million next year to roughly $708 million total.

During an executive session open to the media, committee members said deep cuts to NU’s federal funding had led them to reverse course on Gov. Jim Pillen’s recommendation to cut $14.3 million from the university’s budget next year. However, the nine-member committee ultimately postponed a vote to set NU’s biennial budget in order to gather more information about the details of an agreement struck between Pillen and NU administrators.

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