Regents still looking for ways to trim budget - Associated Press

The Montana state Board of Regents will continue to search for ways to trim the university system budget, but Chairman Stephen Barrett says tuition increases aren't being considered. The regents were meeting Thursday and Friday in Helena. Gov. Brian Schweitzer last week asked state agencies to find ways to cut their budgets by 5 percent in 2011, if necessary. That amounts to $7.5 million for a university system that is also losing $18 million in one-time federal funds used to shore up the base budget for the current biennium.