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UVU evaluating how to cut its budget, create reinvestment plan as required by Utah Legislature
Utah Valley University is evaluating how to best proceed after the Utah Legislature passed a pair of bills with significant implications for higher education. Roughly 10% of the instructional budget for state universities was cut in the latest legislative session, amounting to $8.9 million UVU needs to cut from its budget, a school spokesperson confirmed. Lawmakers also passed House Bill 265, a bill directing institutions to build a “strategic reinvestment plan.” Schools may recover cut funding and reallocate it to programs that “merit additional investment.” Each university ...