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« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2008, 09:31:13 AM » |
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We're facing a 10% budget cut, but it isn't clear how it will play out.
We used to have food and drink at department meetings, but that got cut. No one seems to be going to any conferences either except in the area.
There is a state hiring freeze.
Dept. chairs are under a lot of pressure not to spend money.
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Clowns, I tell you. Clowns.
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« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2008, 09:47:20 PM » |
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Urban CC here:
A neighboring department lost their copy machine, now they share ours.
Travel funds sliced. No official hiring freeze, but no new hires to replace retirees.
Travel/Conference/Professional Development funds drastically slashed. Only administrative favorites need apply.
Staff members fired, and retired ones don't get replaced, leaving administrators without secretaries.
Enrollment significantly up! a result of enrollment being significantly down at the public universities are students end up transferring to.
The general tone of doom and gloom is now doom and gloom hyperbole style.
Big unknowns about what the next state budget will have in store for us.
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« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2008, 09:14:44 AM » |
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Current academic year: 11% cut.
New academic year: 12.5% proration, hiring freeze.
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things... Mark Twain
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« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2008, 11:30:40 AM » |
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We're not putting anyone up for tenure. Bit unfair. May have a negative impact on promotions too. Ugh!!!
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« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2008, 02:21:42 PM » |
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Regional Stae U--hiring freeze, 5% threatened cut, equipment budget frozen. Athletics left untouched...
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« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2009, 06:18:12 PM » |
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New England SLAC here. Full hiring freeze. All vacant positions collapsed into a mushy fund. No hiring at all. New message: cut all Adjuncts and Lab Assistants by 10 percent every Dept. for AY 2009-2010. Will I suspect get worse.
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« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2009, 07:30:28 PM » |
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Public R-1. Kind of disturbing, as the effects are hitting way harder in some portions of campus than others.
My department is in the Golden Child section of campus, so we may lose a few adjuncts and maybe a TA line. Elsewhere, they are talking about cutting/consolidating whole departments and interdisciplinary programs.
I am terrified for my friends in other parts of the campus, and I feel horribly guilty about my merit raise.
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« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2009, 09:22:18 PM » |
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Complicated, the university is in good shape and figuring out how not to cut lines or personnel. In my Department, we have some extra source of revenues that may go down a little bit which often allow us to close the usual deficit.
Personally, we stopped providing food at any event unless it is justified because someone is coming (faculty search). My fear is that lines next year will he hard to get. We will ask to do more with less but that is not different.
No one knows how it will impact recruitment (grad level though) but my sense is that the yield may be higher this year but with attrition of students already registered who may go part time because they cannot afford full time.
Again, complicated and unsure, we have been more carefully in expansion but not afraid of planning for new programs and ventures, including the online ones.
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