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

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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.

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Los Angeles School Board eliminates thousands of teachers’ jobs

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World Socialist Website: Los Angeles School Board eliminates thousands of teachers’ jobs

The decision by the Los Angeles School Board to eliminate thousands of positions is the latest in a series of attacks on California teachers. The vote by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) came at a special April 14 meeting called to address a budget deficit of $596 million for 2009-2010.

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California: Part-Time Instructors Will Be Affected Most by Class Cuts at PCC

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Courier: Part-Time Instructors Will Be Affected Most by Class Cuts

The reduction of this year’s summer intersession due to budget cuts is not only affecting students, but faculty as well. Many PCC part-time professors will see their hours decrease dramatically, with some even being out of jobs completely.

“Some part-time faculty will be losing their jobs,” said Roger Marheine, president of the Faculty Association. “Others will have the amount of classes they teach cut in half.”

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Australia: Teachers, nurses demand pay rise as others fear job losses

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Courier Mail: Teachers, nurses demand pay rise as others fear job losses

JOB loss fears amid the recession and the fight for better pay for teachers and nurses are set to dominate today’s Labour Day march in Brisbane.

Teachers will lead the marches in Brisbane and regional centres to launch a national advertising campaign over state pay levels and in recognition of the 120th anniversary of the Queensland Teachers Union.

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U of Washington cuts hundreds of jobs

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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

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

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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.

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Irish teachers’ union warns 1,000 jobs face the chop

Posted on April 20, 2009 by | Comments Off on Irish teachers’ union warns 1,000 jobs face the chop

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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Ontario: Job losses, fee hikes expected in UWO budget

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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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North Carolina: Greensboro College cuts jobs, wages

Posted on April 20, 2009 by | Comments Off on North Carolina: Greensboro College cuts jobs, wages

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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Iowa: Hawkeye faculty ‘shocked’ by layoffs

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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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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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Oregon: Is MHCC cutting its faculty?

Posted on April 6, 2009 by | Comments Off on Oregon: Is MHCC cutting its faculty?

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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Cambridge University Press: dons step in as digital age threatens jobs at world’s oldest publisher

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The Guardian: Cambridge University Press: dons step in as digital age threatens jobs at world’s oldest publisher

• Unions take their case to university’s Syndicate
• Management says press was losing £2m a year

College dons have become embroiled in a bitter row over plans to axe more than 150 jobs at Cambridge University Press – the oldest continually operating book publisher in the world.

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Parsons Faculty Is Cut Amid Protests by Artists

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The New York Times: Parsons Faculty Is Cut Amid Protests by Artists

A dozen members of the fine-arts faculty at Parsons the New School for Design have been told that they will not be teaching in the department in the fall. The move has ignited further conflict at the New School, whose embattled president, Bob Kerrey, received an overwhelming no-confidence vote from the university’s full-time faculty in December.

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Washington: 7,000 jobs could be axed to close $9 billion budget gap

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The Olympian: 7,000 jobs could be axed to close $9 billion budget gap
Education takes a big hit in plan from Senate Democrats

The Senate Democrats’ budget plan outlined Monday would cut more than $3 billion from state programs, including big slices from public schools, universities and health care over the next two years.

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Florida: A worst-case budget for UF cuts 140 jobs

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The Gainesville Sun: A worst-case budget for UF cuts 140 jobs

More than 140 employees of the University of Florida would lose their jobs under worst-case budget plans being prepared by various UF colleges.

Some layoffs would come through colleges eliminating academic programs, such as athletic training, documentary film and educational psychology. A variety of other programs and facilities also would be cut if the proposals are enacted.

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Graduate students hoping for tenure-track positions face bleak prospects as universities cut budgets and freeze hiring

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Globe and Mail: Black days for those dreaming of the ivory tower

Graduate students hoping for tenure-track positions face bleak prospects as universities cut budgets and freeze hiring

McGill graduate student Ashley Burgoyne has one word to sum up the outlook this spring for freshly minted PhDs with dreams of getting on the tenure track. Scary.
McGill graduate student Ashley Burgoyne, an expert in music technology, worries that he won’t find full-time work at a university. (John Morstad for The Globe and Mail)

McGill graduate student Ashley Burgoyne, an expert in music technology, worries that he won’t find full-time work at a university.

The economic crisis that has gripped the globe is hitting campuses across the country. Universities are cutting budgets, and for many schools that means putting hiring plans into deep freeze. Add to that federal cuts to research funding, a new reluctance by senior faculty to retire, and dwindling endowment funds to support scholars, and the picture grows grim.

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Texas: UTMB faculty members fight for old jobs

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The Galveston County Daily News: UTMB faculty members fight for old jobs

GALVESTON — Hearings have begun for about 30 University of Texas Medical Branch faculty members who are fighting for jobs lost in mass layoffs after Hurricane Ike.

The 30 are among 127 faculty members dismissed after the Sept. 13 storm flooded more than 1 million square feet of buildings on the island campus, knocking John Sealy Hospital, its main revenue maker, out of commission for months.

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State Colleges Also Face Cuts in Ambitions

Posted on March 19, 2009 by | Comments Off on State Colleges Also Face Cuts in Ambitions

The New York Times: State Colleges Also Face Cuts in Ambitions

TEMPE, Ariz. — When Michael Crow became president of Arizona State University seven years ago, he promised to make it “The New American University,” with 100,000 students by 2020. It would break down the musty old boundaries between disciplines, encourage advanced research and entrepreneurship to drive the new economy, and draw in students from underserved sectors of the state.

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New York: RPI won’t renew “temporary” faculty contracts

Posted on March 16, 2009 by | Comments Off on New York: RPI won’t renew “temporary” faculty contracts

Albany Times-Union: RPI language programs may be at risk
College won’t confirm concerns; says students may have “opportunities”

Friday, March 6, 2009

TROY Some professors and students are worried about the fate of language instruction at RPI, which announced Thursday that it won’t renew the contracts of roughly 13 “temporary” faculty members.

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