Snip, Snip, Snip

The Atlanta Journal-Consitution reports that Georgia State University is culling 300 positions — most of them vacant — in an effort to close its budget gap. Only about 30 of the positions are currently occupied, and no faculty jobs are on the chopping block, the newspaper notes.
The University of Florida will shed 150 positions — 72 faculty jobs and 80 staff jobs — in an effort to pare $42-million from its budget, The Independent Florida Alligator reports. President J. Bernard Machen told the Faculty Senate last Friday that cutting vacant positions will save the university about $12- to $13-million, but an unspecified number of layoffs will also be necessary, the student newspaper reports. (After the meeting, Machen told a reporter for the Alligator that he expects fewer than a dozen faculty layoffs and a “fair number of staff layoffs.”)
Meanwhile, Salem State College and Claremont McKenna College are also trimming jobs and issuing pink slips.