Indiana's public universities are seeking more money in the new state budget, but that money may be hard to come by.

Senator Luke Kenley, who chairs both the Senate Appropriations Committee and the State Budget Committee, says he expects being able to increase state spending by just one-and-a-half-percent, the same figure proposed by Republican Governor-elect Mike Pence during the campaign.

Leaders of Purdue, I-U, Indiana State, Ball State, Vincennes, Ivy Tech, and the University of Southern Indiana have been trooping through the budget committee to lay out their funding hopes for the new two-year spending plan.