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NKU to switch to incentive-based budget model

Richard Cracchiolo, Copy Editor February 25, 2015

NKU President Geoffrey Means and Provost Sue Ott Rowlands unveiled plans at a forum to introduce an incentive-based budget of funding that will aim to reward departments and colleges on performance. The...

Gap in state appropriations leaves NKU at a disadvantage

Tori Lentz, Assistant News Editor November 19, 2014

NKU continues to fall behind several Kentucky universities in state appropriations, according to the 2014 Annual Financial Report presented at the Board of Regents meeting Wednesday.   State Appropriations NKU...

Budget cuts lead to layoffs

Richard Cracchiolo, News Editor September 4, 2014

Putting the plans it devised last spring to deal with its budget problems into action, NKU had to make some layoffs over the summer. According to President Geoffrey Mearns the university had to terminate...

NKU President Geoffrey Mearns addresses several hundred people at his annual budget address. Topics included tuition increase, eliminating positions, state budget funding and money received for the future Health Innovations Center.

Mearns addresses NKU budget

Stephen Wilder and Richard Cracchiolo April 30, 2014

Eliminated positions, budget cuts, increased tuition, money received for the future Health Innovations Center and progress being made on the state funding issues are just among a few topics NKU President...

A map showing the proposed location of The Health Innovations Center. The center will add an additional space of 125,000 square feet.

Health Innovations Center to offer additional resources

Emily Hodges, Contributing Writer March 5, 2014

Nearly 250 well-qualified students are turned away because NKU doesn’t have space for them and 30 percent of applicants are denied admission as a result of NKU having a 28 percent loss of space per student...

SGA Senator Jarrod West calls Kentuckys legislative hotline. The senators called the hotline during one of their meetings.

Financial woes to take toll on NKU students’ tuition

Richard Cracchiolo, News Editor March 5, 2014

NKU is expected to see an approximate five percent increase in tuition if it receives no aid in its financial burdens. According to NKU’s President Geoffrey Mearns, the university needs an approximate...

SGA releases Spring 2014 semester budget

SGA releases Spring 2014 semester budget

Richard Cracchiolo, News Editor February 19, 2014

The university’s Student Government Association released the budget for this semester, which reveals the  plan to spend $8,400 of the total $10,620. According to SGA’s Secretary of Administration...

Mearns unveils 2013-14 budget, renovation plans

Mac Payton, Staff writer April 18, 2013

Exactly a year after being announced as NKU’s fifth president on the same stage, President Geoffrey Mearns addressed the campus about the university’s budget on Wednesday in Greaves Concert Hall. “We...

Mearns addresses campus community about next year’s budget

Mac Payton, Staff writer April 17, 2013

Exactly a year after being named NKU’s fifth president on the same stage, President Geoffrey Mearns addressed the campus about the university’s budget on Wednesday in Greaves Hall. “We are in a...

Budget cuts dependent on Senate decision

Budget cuts dependent on Senate decision

Zachary Rogers, Staff writer March 21, 2012

The proposed 6.4 percent budget cut that could affect all of Northern Kentucky University’s state funds recently passed in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Although unofficial until the Senate...

Votruba lauded amidst budget cut talks

Claire Higgins, News editor January 18, 2012

The Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents is working toward making some changes in the university’s future, including a possible budget cut and efforts to honor the president in his final semester. The...

Major building changes in store for NKU academic divisions

Staff Report January 19, 2011

A lack of adequate state funding to build an independent College of Business building will result in a major move of departments throughout the campus of Northern Kentucky University to make room for the...

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