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Utah's eight degree-granting public colleges & universities present their strategic reinvestment plans to the Utah Board of Higher Education.

The plans are mandated by a budget reallocation law recently passed by the Utah Legislature.

The reinvestment plans include aggressive investments in rising technologies such as AI — along with job and academic program cuts.

Friday’s Utah Board of Higher Education meeting offered telling glimpses into the academic future of the state’s public colleges and universities.

Earlier this year, the Legislature passed House Bill 265 — the so-called “ strategic reinvestment” initiative requiring Utah’s eight public colleges and universities to reallocate millions of dollars to programs determined to be of highest value to both students a

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