UA Board of Regents formulates Legislative budget requests

The University of Alaska Board of Regents this week is meeting in Juneau. Among the topics up for discussion is figuring how the university should move forward in a progressively bleaker fiscal climate, and developing a plan of attack for their legislative budget requests.
As state funding continues to decrease, the University of Alaska has typically relied on formulaic, across-the-board cuts, applied on a campus-by-campus basis. This year, however, Regent Gloria O’Neill says the board is