Five-Year Budget Timeline


Arizona Daily Wildcat
Wednesday, November 2, 2005

2001-02 – State Legislature cuts $16,594,000 from UA funding

  • UA implements a hiring freeze

  • 333 university employees lose their jobs

  • Beginning steps to phase out Arizona

  • International College

  • Opening of UA North campus delayed

  • Custodial service cuts

  • Tuition increases: resident tuition jumps 6.1 percent or $142; nonresident jumps 5.6 percent or $552

  • $4.4 million net tuition revenue

  • 2002-03 – Legislature cuts $26,050,100

  • Hiring freeze continues

  • Program eliminations, mergers and reconstructions continue

  • 200 employee contracts not renewed

  • Arizona Board of Regents announces Changing Directions

  • UA implements Focused Excellence in response to Changing Directions

  • Deans of colleges asked to submit proposals for reducing expenditures

  • Tuition increases: Resident tuition increases 3.9 percent or $97, nonresident tuition jumps 7.3 percent or $751

  • $6 million net tuition revenue

  • 2003-04 – Cost of employee benefits increases

  • House Bill 2533 fails to provide adequate funding for employee benefits

  • UA absorbs $7.5 million in increased costs

  • Tuition increase: Resident tuition hikes 39.1 percent or $1,010; nonresident increases 11.3 percent or $1,260

  • $13.3 million net tuition revenue

  • 2004-05 – Cost of employee benefits continue to increase

  • Permanent internal reallocation to cover $6,241,000 of the costs

  • Tuition increase: Resident tuition jumps 13.7 percent or $494; nonresident increases 5.7 percent or $704

  • $4.2 million net tuition revenue

  • 2005-06 – State cuts $949,800

  • Campaign Arizona ends after raising $1.2 billion for UA endowment

  • Tuition increase: Resident tuition increases 9.8 percent or $400; nonresident tuition jumps about 4 percent or $604

  • $3.5 million net tuition revenue


  • Source: Budget Director Dick Roberts and UA financial bulletins