Scores of students, faculty and admin testified into the night to Connecticut’s Appropriations Committee on Feb. 21 to ask the state for more funding in the 2025 fiscal year. The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system and the University of Connecticut were represented at the public hearing. The budget for the upcoming fiscal year would allocate $93 million less than what was provided to UConn in the 2024 fiscal year, and $64.2 million less than the university requested. In the hearing and the Appropriations Committee meeting earlier that day, the university requested an additional $47.3 million to alleviate the budget cut.
