News Roundup

Budget cuts are prompting the University of South Dakota and its Sanford School of Medicine to slash 13 staff and three faculty jobs, the Argus Leader reports. An additional 19 open positions will be axed or combined with others, Phil Carter, manager of media relations, told the Sioux Falls, S.D., daily.
Idaho State University will lay off 73 employees and eliminate 77 vacant jobs as part of an effort to combat a $17-million budget cut, the Associated Press reports. Tenured and tenure-track faculty jobs are not on the chopping block.
Colorado College, still struggling to balance its budget, has laid off 11 staff members, The Gazette, a daily newspaper out of Colorado Springs, reports. Leslie Weddell, a college spokeswoman, told the newspaper that the move was necessary because only 51 workers, fewer than expected, took voluntary buyouts.
Officials at Lambuth University, a private, liberal-arts university in Jackson, Tenn., announced yesterday that the university won’t be able to pay its employees as scheduled, The Tennessean reports.
Chicago State University students are unhappy about the institution’s choice of presidential finalists, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Lee T. Todd Jr., president of the University of Kentucky, promised last week not to eliminate any jobs this fiscal year, but with a $10-million budget shortfall expected next year, he’s not making any promises about fiscal year 2009-10, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.