The MINIMUM amount of furlough days are 6. According to the policy released by the Board of Regents today "Presidents are authorized to order additional furloughs if necessary to meet institutional budget reduction requirements." Georgia State University has already announced that faculty will be required to take EiGHT furlough days. Faculty contracts were revised this year to include a clause that allows for TEN furlough days per academic year. If the governor's behavior of the past year is any indication then it is a given that faculty will be required to take the 10 days and our work load will not be decreased to reflect the mandatory time off.

Owing to federal regulations, employees on H-1B visas are exempt from furlough leave without pay.

Faculty furloughs are meaningless because the faculty are not allowed to take them on days when they teach, and they are still expected to keep up a full research load. They are simply pay cuts. At least staff get time off to make up for their pay cuts.

This is a pay cut with a different name. The only one who benefit from this system is the governor who cut budgets without having to raise taxes, but all done on the backs of people who don't vote for him anyway. I guess this is payback for naively thinking that the people of Georgia actually want a university system--it has become obvious that this is no longer the case--well other than UGA football.