Purdue cuts $45 million from budget - CHARLES M. BARTHOLOMEW, POST-TRIBUNE

In-state tuition and required fees at all four Purdue University campuses will continue to be among the lowest charged by Big Ten institutions under a budget approved Friday by trustees meeting at Purdue North Central. The fiscal year systemwide budget, which comes mostly from state appropriations and student fees, is anticipated to be $1.1 billion. "This is a balanced budget for 2011, but only because there are no raises and because we took effective steps across the system to cut $45 million within the next 15 months," Purdue President France A. Cordova said. Purdue is using deferred hiring, budget cuts to information technology, deferred operations and facility repairs, and energy savings to return $45.47 million from the 2009-2011 budget to state government as called for by Gov. Mitch Daniels.