UNI faces layoffs, program reductions due to budget cuts - Diane Heldt/SourceMedia Group News

The University of Northern Iowa will cut jobs — through attrition and layoffs — reduce programs and services and outsource things like email to cover a $3.6 million budget shortfall this year, UNI President Ben Allen told state regents Thursday. Ultimately, UNI officials want to double the school’s out-of-state student enrollment, from about 8 percent now to 15 percent in the coming years, as a way to better insulate the university from state funding cuts, Allen said. Iowa’s three regent universities have lost more than 20 percent of their state funding since 2009.