Asking for a Budget Cut - Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Ed

Faculty at the University of Iowa are bothered that their president publicly backed a plan to cut the university’s budget by nearly $50 million. Privately, some faculty were horrified by seeing President Sally Mason’s signature on the letter endorsing cuts to the university. Other professors understood that Mason may have signed the letter at the insistence of the state university system's Board of Regents. The letter asks the legislature to adopt a new funding model that would eventually take money from the University of Iowa’s and give it to other public universities in the state. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/31/u-iowa-faculty-worry-their-president-has-not-done-enough-fight-budget-cuts