U of M president proposes tuition hike, staff cuts - Chris Williams, Associated Press

The University of Minnesota will eliminate hundreds of jobs, cut millions of dollars in academic programs, freeze wages and raise tuition rates as part of a budget presented Friday by outgoing President Robert Bruininks. "We have to budget and plan for the worst-case scenario," Bruininks said at a meeting of the university's Board of Regents. That scenario includes a cut of $71 million in state aid to $520.3 million next year. That's the figure the Republican-controlled Legislature has passed and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed as too low. If their stalemate over the state budget continues through July 1, the state government could shut down and state funding for the university system would stop.