Topeka ? The Kansas Board of Regents made it official Thursday: University leaders will receive no salary increases in the coming year.

Regents members said they wished they could have offered pay raises, but with higher-education funding being reduced and possibly more cuts on the horizon, they could not.

Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway is the top-paid chief executive of the six regents universities. He draws an annual salary of $219,420. A year ago, he received a 5.75 percent pay raise.