Tag Archives: Budgets & Funding

Cuts at U. of California at Riverside Reflect Harsh Realities for All of the System’s Campuses

The Chronicle News Blog: Cuts at U. of California at Riverside Reflect Harsh Realities for All of the System’s Campuses

San Francisco — In a memorandum that offers a look into the harsh decisions that leaders throughout the University of California system are making as they cope with further cuts in state support, the chancellor of the University of California at Riverside has announced that his campus will cut faculty and staff positions by 15 percent over the next couple of years and enroll fewer students in the fall of 2010.

30 workers, 45 majors to be cut at FAU as school tries to trim almost $17 million

Palm Beach Post: 30 workers, 45 majors to be cut at FAU as school tries to trim almost $17 million

Florida Atlantic University plans to lay off 30 employees and eliminate 45 majors in its effort to gouge $16.7 million from a budget already ravaged by two years of statewide cuts.

The proposal was released late Friday with an online video presentation by FAU President Frank Brogan.

Cal State May Cut Enrollment by 40,000, Chancellor Says

The Chronicle: Cal State May Cut Enrollment by 40,000, Chancellor Says

California State University will probably reduce its enrollment by 40,000 students, the largest single-year decrease in its history, if proposed cuts in state support are adopted, the system’s chancellor said on Thursday.

CANADA: Academics call for greater transparency

World University News: CANADA: Academics call for greater transparency

The Canadian Association of University Teachers has called on the country’s universities to open their books so the causes and extent of the financial difficulties facing institutions can be better understood.

Georgia colleges can hire more lecturers

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia colleges can hire more lecturers
State raises cap to 20% of faculty to help schools deal with recession

Students at Georgia’s public colleges may have more lecturers teaching their classes this coming academic year under a change approved by the state Board of Regents.

The board changed its policy last month to raise the cap on lecturers from 10 percent to 20 percent of a college’s faculty. The amended rule allows all colleges to use lecturers, not just research institutions.

AAUP Plans to Investigate Clark Atlanta U. Over Faculty Layoffs

The Chronicle: AAUP Plans to Investigate Clark Atlanta U. Over Faculty Layoffs

The American Association of University Professors today informed Clark Atlanta University of plans to investigate the university over its dismissal of 70 full-time faculty members in February.

In a letter to Clark Atlanta’s president, Carlton E. Brown, the associate secretary of the AAUP, B. Robert Kreiser, wrote that the institution’s “massive dismissals of faculty” raised “key issues of academic freedom, tenure, and due process” that remain unresolved after two months of communications with the university. Accordingly, Mr. Kreiser said, the AAUP plans to establish an investigative panel to determine whether the association’s committee on academic freedom and tenure needs to take action against the university.

Ontario: Queen’s atmosphere ‘tense’

The Kingston Whig Standard: Queen’s atmosphere ‘tense’
EDUCATION: Faculty association accuses university of balancing books on the backs of professors

Tension is mounting at Queen’s University, where the faculty union is accusing administration of balancing the books at the expense of professors and instructors.

Last week, Principal Tom Williams said layoffs would be unavoidable unless all staff agreed to cost-saving measures such as unpaid days off.

ZIMBABWE: Central bank looted university funds

World University News:

ZIMBABWE: Central bank looted university funds
03 May 2009
Issue: 0028

Zimbabwe’s central bank raided the foreign currency accounts of universities to prop up President Robert Mugabe’s government during a crippling economic and political crisis that saw inflation reach world record levels. A legislator has taken the looting of funds from the private Africa University to parliament through an upcoming question and answer session. Politicians said three other universities claimed donor money vanished from their accounts.

U of Washington cuts hundreds of jobs

Seattle Times: UW gives details of $73M in budget cuts

The University of Washington released details Wednesday of how it intends to slash its budget by $73 million over the next fiscal year.

The University of Washington released details Wednesday of how it intends to slash its budget by $73 million over the next fiscal year.

The cuts range from 9 percent in the College of Arts and Sciences to 16 percent in President Mark Emmert’s office.

UW budget cuts
Academic units

9 percent: Arts and Sciences ($10.5 million)

9.5 percent: Business ($1.9 million), Engineering ($4 million), Medical Centers ($1.6 million), Medicine ($5.3 million), Public Health ($0.8 million), Vice President for Medical Affairs Office ($0.1 million)

10 percent: Dentistry ($1.3 million), Nursing ($0.9 million), Pharmacy ($0.6 million)

11 percent: Built Environments ($0.8 million), Education ($1 million), Environment ($0.1 million), Forest Resources ($0.7 million), Ocean and Fishery Sciences ($0.9 million), Social Work ($0.5 million), Undergraduate Academic Affairs ($0.7 million)

12 percent: Educational Outreach ($0.2 million), Evans School of Public Affairs ($0.4 million), Information School ($0.5 million), Law ($1.6 million)

14 percent: Graduate School ($0.9 million)

Administrative units

8 percent: Research ($0.8 million)

10 percent: UW Technology ($2.6 million)

11 percent: University Advancement ($0.5 million)

12 percent: Libraries ($3.7 million), Student Life ($2 million), Minority Affairs ($0.6 million)

15 percent: Health Sciences Administration ($1.6 million), Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer ($0.1 million)

16 percent: Attorney General ($0.1 million), External Affairs ($0.8 million), Human Resources ($1.3 million), Planning and Budgeting ($0.5 million), President’s Office ($0.4 million), Provost’s Office ($0.9 million), UW Technology Office of Information Management ($2.6 million), UW Finance and Facilities ($7.7 million)

Branch campuses

9.8 percent: UW Bothell ($3.1 million)

10.1 percent: UW Tacoma ($4 million)

Other cuts

Instruction equipment fund: ($4 million)

Other: ($0.6 million)

Note: The effective cuts to some academic units are less than stated, due to the one-time allocation of about $10 million in reserve funds

Source: University of Washington

L.A. Teachers Vote on Union Plan for for One-Day Strike

Los Angeles Times: L.A. Teachers Vote on Union Plan for for One-Day Strike

The union representing Los Angeles teachers is organizing for a possible one-day strike next month to protest looming layoffs. The work stoppage would have to be approved by a majority of teachers, who will be able to vote over a several-day period, starting today.

Last week, the Los Angeles Board of Education, by a 4-3 vote, approved a budget package that could result in more than 5,300 job losses, including about 3,500 teachers who lack tenure protection.

U of Calgary faces budget crisis

Calgary Herald: U of C faces budget crisis

Tight times at the University of Calgary will get tighter in coming years, as the school will likely have to cut costs to avoid three consecutive years of deficits, starting at $17 million next year and rising each year after.

UVM students protest again

Burlington Free Press: Students protest again
Demonstrator arraigned for trespassing

Students upset with budget cuts at the University of Vermont tried — with mixed success — to get faculty and staff workers to back them at a noontime rally Thursday, one day after a sit-in at the Waterman administrative building resulted in 31arrests.

“We demand President (Daniel) Fogel’s resignation,” Cecile Reurge, a 19-year-old freshman from Stony Brook, N.Y., said to the cheers of about 100 people gathered in front of Bailey-Howe Library. “We have no confidence in his leadership anymore.”

UVM unveils revised budget plan, hopes to shrink number of layoffs

Burlington Free Press: UVM unveils revised budget plan, hopes to shrink number of layoffs

The chief financial officer for the University of Vermont says he’s optimistic the school has figured out a way to avoid a second round of layoffs and possibly reinstate some of the part-time lecturers given pink slips earlier this year.

Public Colleges Consider Privatization as a Cure for the Common Recession

The Chronicle: Public Colleges Consider Privatization as a Cure for the Common Recession

As state tax revenues plummet, some lawmakers and higher-education leaders are once again looking at loosening the bonds between state governments and public colleges to save money and give colleges the freedom to bolster their bottom lines in new ways.

Over the past two decades, college officials have often lamented the growing need to secure money outside of appropriations. But the continuing economic crisis has led to a new urgency on the part of some public colleges to shed more of their ties to states, despite the mixed results of previous such efforts.

9 Tenured Faculty Members Are Laid Off at San Francisco Art Institute

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.

Ohio: Hebrew Union could face closure

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.

Ontario: Job losses, fee hikes expected in UWO budget

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.

Canadian Researchers Protest Budget Cuts in Open Letter to Prime Minister

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.

Lambuth University can’t make payroll

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.

Iowa community college laying off 43

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.