{"id":10727,"date":"2016-03-09T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10727"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:12:52","slug":"ubc-operating-under-constrained-funding-means-what-ubcnews-ubc100-highered-bced-bcpoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2016\/03\/ubc-operating-under-constrained-funding-means-what-ubcnews-ubc100-highered-bced-bcpoli\/","title":{"rendered":"#UBC operating under ‘constrained funding’ means what? #ubcnews #ubc100 #highered #bced #bcpoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the opaque cloud of process, the\u00a0University of British Columbia announced yesterday<\/a> that it is operating “in a constrained funding environment.” So what in the world does “constrained funding” mean?<\/p>\n

Of course, UBC’s faculty and students have grown accustomed to “constrained funding” if this means few\u00a0to no internal funds\u00a0for research and teaching despite millions in revenue for more administrators and capital projects. Yes, we know what\u00a0“constrained funding” means in that sense.<\/p>\n

But what exactly does\u00a0“a constrained funding environment” mean at the University level? Does it mean a $120m deficit? $30m deficit?<\/p>\n

Does it simply mean that the economy and Loonie and are nosediving, so expect the worst in 2016-17?<\/p>\n

Quite an elusive report on\u00a0UBC finances<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the opaque cloud of process, the\u00a0University of British Columbia announced yesterday that it is operating “in a constrained funding environment.” So what in the world does “constrained funding” mean? Of course, UBC’s faculty and students have grown accustomed to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,2249,287,406501,2251,621,1223,2273,2275,2276],"tags":[1288925,1288923,1288941,1288936,1288963,1288964],"class_list":["post-10727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-accountability","category-administration","category-bc-education","category-budgets-funding","category-economics","category-governance","category-students","category-unions","category-working-conditions","tag-academic-freedom","tag-administration","tag-budgets-funding","tag-governance","tag-unions","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10728,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10727\/revisions\/10728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}