Ned Lamont to spare UConn, CSCU from required spending cuts

Ned Lamont to spare UConn, CSCU from required spending cuts

Gov. Ned Lamont will not ask public colleges and universities to sacrifice further over the next year as his administration tries to achieve big efficiency savings ordered by legislators in the new state budget, officials said. The governor’s budget spokesman, Chris Collibee, confirmed Tuesday that neither the University of Connecticut nor the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system would be asked — at least initially — to forfeit any m…