The Chronicle: Layoffs Introduce a College Town to Uncertainty
One of the most popular lunch spots on a small downtown strip here is a place called Lou’s, a 62-year-old diner with a checkerboard linoleum floor, a dessert case filled with diet-busting baked goods, and, since this fall, a bailout special on the menu. On a recent day, it was a generous serving of meatloaf, with mashed potatoes and corn, for $6.95.
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Herald.ie: Teachers’ union warns 1,000 jobs face the chop
THERE will be a huge reduction in the number of teachers in secondary level schools this year.
As many as 1,000 temporary or part-time secondary teachers are facing the chop, according to the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI).
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The Chronicle News Blog: 9 Tenured Faculty Members Are Laid Off at San Francisco Art Institute
The San Francisco Art Institute has laid off nine tenured faculty members in the latest in a series of cutbacks aimed at stemming the institute’s cash-flow problems.
The financial crisis and credit crunch have hit the institute particularly hard, said Bob Gamboa, a spokesman. Lenders have been stingy since 30 percent of its endowment disappeared last fall in the stock-market crash. Since then, the institute has taken a number of belt-tightening measures, including a blanket salary freeze for nonunion faculty and staff members, compulsory furloughs during semester breaks, and a 25-percent pay cut for senior administrators.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Hebrew Union could face closure
Tough economic times and multimillion-dollar debt might force Hebrew Union College, the nation’s oldest Jewish educational institution, to shut down its Clifton campus.
The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is facing an $8 million debt – in part because of flat fundraising, pension liabilities, and endowment and other revenue declines that have hit the institute harder than at any other time in its history, Rabbi David Ellenson, the college-institute’s president, told stakeholders in an e-mail.
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London Free Press: Job losses, fee hikes expected in budget
Tuition fees at UWO will rise an average 4.5% and there’ll be unknown job cuts under a budget recommended by the school’s senate after heated debate yesterday.
The budget must still be approved by UWO’s board of governors, but some faculty and staff members accused the university of unnecessary spending as job losses loom.
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News 14: Greensboro College cuts jobs, wages
GREENSBORO – Economic stresses have forced another Triad college to make some hard financial choices. Greensboro College administrators said they were forced to make some budget cuts.
Word of cuts spread quickly around campus.
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Globe and Mail: PM urged to restore science funds
More than 2,000 scientists galvanized into ‘Don’t leave Canada behind’ campaign
More than 2,000 researchers, including some of the country’s most respected scientists, have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister calling the funding cuts in the January budget “huge steps backward for Canadian science.”
The Chronicle News Blog: Canadian Researchers Protest Budget Cuts in Open Letter to Prime Minister
More than 2,000 Canadian scientists have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper decrying budget cuts in science, especially at a time when President Obama is bolstering research in the United States.
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The Tennessean: Lambuth University can’t make payroll
Lambuth University officials announced Tuesday that the Jackson, Tenn., school will not be able to make its regularly scheduled payroll today.
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The business office was informed Monday that an anticipated line of credit would not be available as previously thought, according to a news release from the university.
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WCF Courier: Hawkeye faculty ‘shocked’ by layoffs
WATERLOO — Faculty members at Hawkeye Community College are reeling following notification last week that 43 instructors will lose their jobs.
“The general mood of the individuals involved is that they are shocked, angry and very disappointed to have been treated in this fashion,” said Arlyn Ristau, former president of the Hawkeye Professional Educators Association.
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WCF Courier: Hawkeye Community College laying off 43
WATERLOO — Hawkeye Community College is notifying 43 organized full- and part-time faculty members that they will be laid off, according to school officials and faculty.
In addition, those staff not covered by a collective bargaining agreement will see a pay freeze and furloughs, HCC President Greg Schmitz said in a memo to employees.
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Boston Globe: Wellesley College cuts 80 non-faculty jobs
Wellesley College is cutting its workforce by 80 employees through layoffs and early retirements, becoming the latest institution of higher education forced to make significant cuts in the dismal economy.
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The Chronicle News Blog: Princeton Slashes Its Budget Again and Freezes Salaries
Facing endowment losses more severe than anticipated, Princeton University will freeze salaries for tenured faculty members and staff members who earn more than $75,000 and slash its budget for the 2011 fiscal year by $80-million, the university’s president, Shirley M. Tilghman, announced this week.
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Globe and Mail: Tuition attrition? Reposition
At Guelph, students are protesting because the university has cut women’s studies and ecology. At the University of Toronto, they’re outraged because the downtown campus is about to charge full-time fees for lighter course loads. York University has just survived a brutal strike by teaching assistants and contract faculty. And as everyone freezes hiring, PhDs have become a glut on the market.
This is just a taste of things to come. As endowment and pension funds shrivel up, Canada’s universities are facing a challenge they haven’t had since the mid-1990s: budget cuts. “It’s a perfect storm,” says education consultant Alex Usher, who figures that endowment funds alone have taken a $2-billion hit.
For the past few years, the postsecondary sector has enjoyed automatic funding increases of 5 per cent to 10 per cent a year. Now, some places will have to cut back 15 per cent over the next three years.
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Star-Telegram: Free-tuition proposal advances in Texas Legislature
AUSTIN — The House approved an amendment to a bill Tuesday that would give free tuition to children of military personnel when one or both of their parents are deployed in combat overseas.
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Globe and Mail: A whole new meaning to cutting classes
Cash-strapped universities looking at cancelling small classes, programs, charging flat tuition
As the last grim signs of winter fade from Canadian campuses, the spring rite of cutting classes is taking on a whole new meaning.
Course calendars across the country are under the microscope as universities, trying to do more with less, are taking a hard look at programs and class sizes. The end result will likely be fewer choices for undergraduates and larger classes in September – another symptom of the financial squeeze on higher education
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The Guardian: More students + less money = no diplomas
The government’s decision to cut sixth-form funding has stunned schools and colleges
Brian Rossiter is struggling to come to terms with a government decision to cut funding for what was supposed to be one of its biggest priorities in education. Rossiter is head of an 11-18 comprehensive and was told last week that funding for its thriving sixth form – which has grown by 28% in just two years as teenagers have been persuaded of the value of further study – is to be reduced by nearly 4% from September.
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The Advocate: Is MHCC cutting its faculty?
Budget cuts face college administration; 16 faculty receive tentative layoff notice
After notification this week of tentative layoffs of 16 full-time faculty members, MHCC instructors are wondering if this is the only solution.
“If we’re trying to grow, this is one of the worst ways to do it,” political science instructor Janet Campbell said Wednesday at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Visual Arts Theater.
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Net Nebraska: UNL budget cuts make students, professors wary
Anyone strolling campus hallways these days has noticed some visible evidence of the nation’s economic woes arriving at UNL: saloon lighting.
Jay Jackson, of building maintenance, is busy removing half the remaining bulbs from hallway fixtures across campus – more than 4,000 so far – as part of UNL’s effort to reduce energy costs.
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Fox 44: UVM faculty plan budget-cut protest
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) – University of Vermont faculty members who say a starvation diet is being imposed on the school’s academic programs are planning a “Let Them Eat Gruel?” budget-cut protest.
United Academics, the union representing most UVM faculty, says President Daniel Fogel’s plan to reduce staffing will result in an English department without courses on Charles Dickens, a Political Science department without courses in international politics and a civil and environmental engineering program at risk of losing accreditation.
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Wall Street Journal: Budget Woes Take Their Toll on Cal State University System
SAN FRANCISCO — Relentless budget cutting by California lawmakers is taking some of the luster off the California State University system, one of the state’s most prized institutions.
Once regarded as a national model, the 23-campus system is reeling from more than $500 million in budget cuts and underfunding over the past two years. As a result, CSU officials for the first time are dropping the policy of accepting all qualified applicants to schools of their choice in a system now brimming with more than 450,000 students.
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