Iowa Lawmakers warn regents could face more cuts - Vanessa Miller, The Gazette

Leaders of Iowa’s public universities spent the summer devising five-year tuition plans that envision increasing rates as high as 7 percent a year if lawmakers don’t come through with enough state funding. But amid grim budget projections, some lawmakers say even status quo state funding is a long shot. In fact, some expect the Legislature to claw back some of the money it already committed this fiscal year to the public universities. That takeback would compound the deappropriations lawmakers leveled against the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa in the last session when they rescinded a combined $30-plus million of general education support for the 2017 and 2018 budget years. http://qctimes.com/news/local/lawmakers-warn-regents-could-face-more-cuts/article_b5305aca-f817-510b-8c7f-71bf61c0e855.html