Budget Cuts and Layoffs

State budget woes have prompted the University of Alabama system to consider cutting about 300 jobs, raising tuition, and cancelling contruction projects, The Birmingham News reports. The job cuts would affect only about 1.2 percent of the system’s 25,000 employees.
Programs in speech pathology, dance, and organizational psychology are on the chopping block at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, according to Knoxnews.com. The university plans to phase out the programs in the next fiscal year to reduce its budget by $11-million.
Who is to blame for the fiscal crisis facing the University of Quebec at Montreal? A “blistering report” blames its former president, the board, and the board of the parent university, among others, for “poor management” of construction projects that cost nearly $750-million, according to The Gazette, a local newspaper.