The University of Iowa announced plans to close several centers on campus in response to legislative budget cuts. Interim Provost Sue Curry says school president Bruce Harreld made the decision based on input of vice presidents and deans.
Curry says some of the U-I facilities that will be shut down include a center on aging, a labor center, the U-I mobile museum, and the Iowa Center for Higher Education. The cuts impact 30 employees.
The univerisity’s statement says the Iowa Legislature has cut the school’s budget by 16 million dollars since fiscal year 2016. It says the midyear cut in April forced the university to adopt a five-month moratorium on construction projects. It also points out that since 1998, the state budget has grown by nearly three billion dollars and U-I enrollment has grown by more than five-thousand, but state funding for the U-I has decreased by nine million dollars.
