Hiring Bytes

The Iowa Board of Regents has voted to freeze nonunion workers’ wages for 2009-10, the Associated Press reports. The board has also approved new early-retirement incentives, in an effort to cut costs.
The University of Colorado hopes to name a chancellor on the main campus, in Boulder, by the end of April, The Denver Post reports.
Top administrators at Oregon State University have agreed to take a one-day furlough to help the university save money, the AP reports. (See the university’s Web site for details.)
Erskine Bowles, president of the University of North Carolina, wants the legislature to consider a campus-employee furlough as an alternative to permanent program cuts, the AP reports.
The University of Tennessee was preparing to lay off hundreds of workers, eliminate programs, and raise tuition ito reduce a $21-million budget cut. Now, thanks to $90-million in federal stimulus money, the system may put some of those plans on hold, The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports. Unfortunately, that money may not save the jobs of some 200 workers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, says the Memphis Business Journal.
Hardly a day passes without more bad news about the academic job market in the United States, as colleges freeze salaries, put the kibosh on hiring, or sack workers. Well, the academic job market in Canada — which not long ago was expected to be booming — has shriveled up, too, reports The Globe and Mail.
As the recession continues, attendance at many academic and professional conferences is down. And next year is expected to be even worse, Jeffrey Young reports on The Chronicle’s Web site.