New details on CSU furlough plan

New details on CSU furlough plan

From CSU Long Beach, an overview of the furlough plan. To view the information, you do have to download the pdfs. It looks like the furloughs will fall on 6 instructional days and 11 staff days. And that there is now precedent for arguing that furlough days at UC should also include instructional day...

Some other, troubling news about free speech

Some other, troubling news about free speech

The Edge of the American West is an award-winning blog that deals with history, philosophy, and Muppets. You can see for yourself here. However, they have some very troubling evidence (anecdotal evidence?) about First Amendment issues and UC, which might be of interest to our readers. However, the AAUP is taking this seriously, so we'll see.In light of the troubling anecdote,...

Bad News: UCLA lecturers to be laid off

Bad News: UCLA lecturers to be laid off

I have received news from my department (Asian Languages & Cultures) that, over the next few days, all state-funded lecturers who teach in the humanities and social sciences at UCLA, as well as a number of lecturers in the sciences, will be receiving layoff notices with an effective date of August 1, 2010. This seems to be a work-around by the administration to procure the...

Statement by the UCLA History Assistant Professors

Statement by the UCLA History Assistant Professors

We are committed to equal access to all forms of higher education for the people of the State of California. We support the historic Master Plan’s vision of the UCs as providing the top 1/8 of California’s high school students with a world-class education, to the great benefit of both our students and our state.We voice our concern that the draconian cuts enacted by the Regents...

Action Item: UCSB Petition to Chancellor Yang

Action Item: UCSB Petition to Chancellor Yang

There is a petition here for the UCSB community to sign, demanding that furloughs be used for the purpose of educatio...

The (Bad) News from Outside of California (Chronicle, 7/27)

The (Bad) News from Outside of California (Chronicle, 7/27)

According to this CHE article, the news for public education outside of California isn't very encouraging. Colorado public colleges are looking at a 10% cut, while the Democratic governor of Maryland has cut $37 million from public higher educatio...

Memo of Understanding for CSU Furlough plan

Memo of Understanding for CSU Furlough plan

Here is a link to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) from the CSU furlough plan. There are a number of items worth noting. 3a. CSU President has the right to "designate specific furlough days as campus closure days, or partial campus closure days."3e. The salary reduction "shall be 9.23% of the annual salary.3h. No more than one furlough day per week.4b. Part-time employees...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom on UC Cuts

Jeffrey Wasserstrom on UC Cuts

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a distinguished professor of Chinese history at UC Irvine, makes an argument for how the budget cuts might impact the field of Chinese studies at UC -- and what this means for UC's reputation and standin...

UCSB Community Coalition for Option 4 Press Conference (UPDATED)

UCSB Community Coalition for Option 4 Press Conference (UPDATED)

Remember, today from 12 to 1 pm, the UCSB Community Coalition for Option 4 is holding a press conference in the courtyard of the Student Affairs Building. More information can be found at http://option4.ning.com/.UPDATE: There is now a video of UCSB graduate student Aaron Jones speaking at the press conference up on the option4 site, as well as photos. Still waiting on an official...

Council of UC Faculty Association Report on Regents Meeting

Council of UC Faculty Association Report on Regents Meeting

Many of you may have already seen this, but I thought it was worth reposting the link to CUCFA President Bob Meister's report on the Regents Meeting. Much of what Meister is discussing has to do with the legality of the Regents' actions on J1 and J2. There are a number of interesting points in the report, but let me highlight just one here. Meister notes,Both General Counsel...

UCB RIP by Erik Tarloff (The Atlantic)

UCB RIP by Erik Tarloff (The Atlantic)

From Erik Tarloff, a novelist and sometime speechwriter during the Clinton years: a personal lament over the end of UCB, published in the Atlantic.Update: And a response by UCB Chancellor Birgeneau. (Thanks, Gerry...

Talking Points for Option 4 Press Conference

Talking Points for Option 4 Press Conference

By Chris Newfield- This year's cuts do not simply impair the University of Califorinia, but redefine it. They do this by ending the UC promise of broad access to a top quality undergraduate education. -That quality had two elements: 1) a superb research faculty that brought cutting-edge knowledge into the classroom. 2) small classes, where face-to-face, active learning gave hundreds...

Option 4 Press Release

Option 4 Press Release

UC COMMUNITY COALITION FOR OPTION 4 Santa Barbara campus www.option4.org “The mind and intellect of man is the very essence of the soul.” --St. Thomas AquinasJuly 24, 2009FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Please distribute widely CONTACT:Aranye Fradenburg805-895-1847lfraden@english.ucsb.eduRobert Williamsrobertw@arthistory.ucsb.eduJonathan Forbesjforbes@umail.ucsb.edu805-276-5440Sonya...

An earlier story from KTVU (Oakland) and a comment on Yudofian rhetoric

An earlier story from KTVU (Oakland) and a comment on Yudofian rhetoric

KTVU in Oakland featured a story on July 14 concerning the disconnect between increased UC administrative spending and the UC budget crisis -- which leads to criticism from the likes of Leland Yee. Their story is here. If UC employees don't want Leland Yee speaking on their behalf, there needs to be a UC response to the discrepancy between executive spending and employee furloughs....

UC Irvine Petition

UC Irvine Petition

This is a statement from 35 UCI faculty and graduate students:"We, the undersigned members of the UCI Academic Senate who have come together to respond to the budget crisis affecting the University of California, petition the Academic Senate Cabinet to endorse the Furlough Implementation Recommendation passed unanimously by the Senate Executive Committee at UC Santa Cruz on July...

CSU faculty agrees to furloughs

CSU faculty agrees to furloughs

CFA (California Faculty Association) at CSU has announced that the CSU faculty have approved Chancellor Reed's furlough plan by a margin of 54 to 46. Many found the choice a difficult one, citing the need to protect students and jobs. However, the faculty also voted no confidence in Reed in overwhelming numbers -- 79% voting "no confidence"; 17% voting "don't know"; and only...

Statement from head of the UC-AFT

Statement from head of the UC-AFT

By Bob SamuelsPresident, UC-AFT (American Federation of Teachers)While President Yudof has argued for a salary reduction plan that is progressive and equitable, if we actually look at the numbers, we find the opposite is true. Using the recent salary database compiled by Jeffrey Bergamini (available at: http://ucpay.globl.org/), we find that the most well-compensated employees...

More on that UCSD letter

More on that UCSD letter

James T. Shea is a former fundraiser for UCSD and has written a critique of the much-discussed letter drafted by Andrew Scull of UCSD. Shea's editorial, published in the San Diego Union-Tribune, is here.And here is more from Andrew Scull, published in the same paper.Many thanks to Jorge Mariscal for forwarding thi...

UPTE Press Release

UPTE Press Release

University Professional & Technical Employees (UPTE) have issued a press release on the large pay increases awarded to UC execs here. (Link is to pdf download.) The release documents the creation of new executive positions and the increase in administrative stipends without clearly defined new duties. It might interest some readers of this site that a certain law school...

Responding to the Regents: a Possible Prototype

Responding to the Regents: a Possible Prototype

Partial position statements and opinions from various campuses have been crossing our screens every day, but so far we haven't seen anything that integrates them into an overall response to the massive operating cuts and furloughs passed by the Regents a little over a week ago.Here's a shot at a synthesis of what we've read. Additions, subtractions, and all sorts of modifications...

UCSC Budget Forum Video

UCSC Budget Forum Video

There is a video here of today's UCSC staff forum, in which Chancellor Blumenthal and EVC Kliger discuss the current situation both for UC and for UCSC. Blumenthal points out how the cuts for UCSC correspond to a cut of $3000 for every student, and how the state of CA is systematically disinvesting from public higher education. I'll try to watch the entire (90 minute!) video...

UCSB Professor on Nick and Paul Show

UCSB Professor on Nick and Paul Show

Aranye Fradenburg (Professor of English, UCSB) discusses the UC crisis on the Nick and Paul Show (AM 1490, Santa Barbara) here, as part of the Option 4 press push. More information on Option 4 can be found here, including the announcement of a July 29 UCSB press conferenc...

UCSD Philosophy Chair denies signing UCSD letter

UCSD Philosophy Chair denies signing UCSD letter

An interesting comment can be found third from the top, by the chair of the UCSD philosophy department. It seems that the now-infamous UCSD letter may have gone out without the full support of all the "signatories." From the Leiter Reports sit...

More from UC Law Dean

More from UC Law Dean

Chronicle of Higher Education has an interview here with UC Berkeley Law School dean on the importance of online education. I don't doubt Dean Edley's sincerity in desiring that a UC education be afforded to as many students as possible, but there simply isn't any meaningful discussion about how, exactly, UC would not simply be replicating a University of Phoenix experience for...

Arnold Waves the Knife

Arnold Waves the Knife

It's fun to watch the visualization of the Gov's inner sadist. But the real marvel of this communication is the kind of budget idea currently deciding the state's future - in this case, a weird mix of nasty and silly.Given the disastrous statewide effects of this one-way cutting the Gov has personally engineered, I do not appreciate the boyish bravado.The effect of having this...

Pay Search Tool Confirms Pay Furloughs Yield 3 Times UCOP Stated Amount

Pay Search Tool Confirms Pay Furloughs Yield 3 Times UCOP Stated Amount

Jeffrey Bergamini of UC Davis has developed a UC pay search tool. One finding is that the furlough's pay reductions yield around $600 million, not the $184.1 million described on p 5 of Regents's J2. Charles Schwartz first raised the issue in mid-June of the gap between stated and projected furlough revenues. If there is a simple explanation for this, UCOP has not given it. It...

UC Regents Do Something Right!

UC Regents Do Something Right!

UC to award honorary degrees to interned Japanese American students.Should have been up last week with this great picture by Jeff Chiu, AP. Better late...

The Furlough Debates: Making the Cuts Visible

The Furlough Debates: Making the Cuts Visible

The UC Regents fundamentally redefined the University of California at their meeting last week. In the process, they imposed furloughs and campus operating cuts (Regents J2) on UC employees over those employees' strong objections (e.g. AFSCME's lawsuit, Academic Senate's 90 pager here, excerpts here). Now many are debating how to make the pay and operating cuts "visible."They...

Screwing the Future

Screwing the Future

The various acts of genius in the current budget deal, according to the LA Times, include these gems:eliminate "state funding for new textbooks for five years, get rid of a requirement that special education students must pass the high school exit exam to obtain a high school diploma and reduce the minimum length of the school year from 180 days to 175."lay off about 2,000 teachers...

California's Hoover Budget

California's Hoover Budget

The Legislature and the Governor have a budget deal that the Assembly and Senate are slated to vote on Thursday. The Gov says, "All around I think it...

Regent Gould Announces Commission on UC Future

Regent Gould Announces Commission on UC Future

Sorry about the delay in postng the announcement for "the Commission on the Future of UC." My Blogger software was rejecting it unless I typed in "Commission of the People Who Dug the Hole We're In...

Compact Fees, Up; No Compact: Fees Up Even More

Compact Fees, Up; No Compact: Fees Up Even More

On Wednesday morning in finance comitttee, Regent Garamendi stirred things up a little. He called on the Regents to shift from defenese to offense, and triggered something in Regent Blum. We had this beautiful thing, he said, called the Compact for Higher Education. And the governor has reneged.What is this Regentally-lamented Compact that we now no longer have? You can read the...

We Get Letters: A Question About Unequal Burdens

We Get Letters: A Question About Unequal Burdens

Why aren't CFA as well as the U.C. faculty and staff and all other state workers being asked to balance the State's budget difficulties on their backs making a huge stink about the fact that they are essentially being given the equivalent of an additional 9.5 to 19.5% minimum tax hike (not a paycut) while the remainder of the citizens, including those who could most afford...

UC Santa Cruz Senate Endorses Furloughs during instruction

UC Santa Cruz Senate Endorses Furloughs during instruction

UCSC's Senate Executive Committee (SEC) has written a memo on Furlough Plan Implementation. It identifies 10 "common" furlough days to be taken during the academic year. Noing that President Yudof has delegated furlough implementation to the campuses, Santa Cruz's SEC states that, we endorse highly visible campus closure during periods of instruction to achieve significant portions...

George Lakoff On What to Do Now, After the Regents Meeting

George Lakoff On What to Do Now, After the Regents Meeting

Ed: to be read to the end!To: All those who endorsed my letter to the Regents:From: George LakoffDate: July 17, 2009More than a thousand of you responded to my letter to the Regents. I wish I could thank you each personally. continue readi...

Budget Town Hall at UC Irvine - A Report

Budget Town Hall at UC Irvine - A Report

Chancellor Drake presided, and Mark LeVine has posted these notes. Also see his valuable suggestions at the bottom for assembling budget information in one place.continue readi...

CUCFA President Bob Meister on KQED Forum July 17

CUCFA President Bob Meister on KQED Forum July 17

Meister writes:UC is using the language of "emergency"not to impose furloughs but to avoid supervision. It has no plan to use its privately funded activities (whether self-sufficient or not) to help fund the educational mission for which the state is unable or unwilling to pay. This is bad, but so is UC’s refusal to puts its non-education/research activities on the line to support...

Analysis Shows UCOP Furlough Plan is Biased Against Low-Wage Workers

Analysis Shows UCOP Furlough Plan is Biased Against Low-Wage Workers

The analysis by Jeffrey Bergamini is he...

Regents Lose Blog Poll Bigtime

Regents Lose Blog Poll Bigtime

The results of our unscientific poll are in. The question: should the UC Regents Postpone the vote on furloughs and emergency powers so they can spend the summer finding better financial ideas?200 people voted: the results: Yes, but it will be hard 30 (15%) Yes, because staff and faculty already have better ideas 136 (68%) No, given the crisis this is the best...

The Crisis on the Campuses: The Testimony of the Ten Chancellors

The Crisis on the Campuses: The Testimony of the Ten Chancellors

Earth to Regents: we're dying down here! The Chancellors broke the silence, and even notes on their moving remarks are well worth the time. continue reading. Transcripts (...

What Happened to the Stop the Cuts Petition at the Regents Meeting?

What Happened to the Stop the Cuts Petition at the Regents Meeting?

We received this description of the commotion during the public comment period at the UC Regents' meeting July 15thcontinue readi...

We Get Letters: Faculty and Staff React to Regents

We Get Letters: Faculty and Staff React to Regents

"An Epic Fall""This was a crushing defeat. There wasn’t really even a battle.""The Regents are deliberately turning UC into the University of Michigan. They are enclosing the knowledge commons.""I think we should refuse to teach under these circumstances: this is what we have to unite to do.""The time for petitions and hectoring is over; it is time for careful thought, organizing,...

Cuts Are Real: J2 Passed after 10 Minutes of Fiery Speeches

Cuts Are Real: J2 Passed after 10 Minutes of Fiery Speeches

Garamendi called for support for his bill for more higher ed money. The Regents declined on procedural grounds. Chair Gould agreed they needed to write a letter to the legislature. They joined Garamendi's rhetorical mode for 10 minutes - especially Regent Marcus. The rhetoric was good (see below). Finance chair Lavano, I believe, complimented "the passion around the table to...

Real Rhetorical Improvement

Real Rhetorical Improvement

On the furlough item, J2, the 10 Chancellors told genuinely moving tales of catastrophic cuts on their various campuses, both in stats and specific images. I'll try to include excepts later. terrible stuff: average class size at UCLA to go to 60, at UCSD to 40, declining staff and faculty numbers all around.very rough steno notes.Lt Gov Garmendi asks the 10 chancellors: are...

Regents Pass President's Emergency Powers (J1) Unanimously

Regents Pass President's Emergency Powers (J1) Unanimously

There were a few questions, some from Lt. Governor Garamendi, the Senate chair expressed coauthorship for the new presidential powers and full support, President Yudof assured the Regents that this is not a "war powers act" as some have alleged, and then J1 passed unanimously on a voice vote.The contrast with the views expressed during Public Comment was tota...

What Should Happen Today

What Should Happen Today

Listen to the Regents deliberate J1 (President's emergency powers) and J2 (furloughs) link 1 link 2Email the Regents to express your real-time opinion - regentsoffice@ucop.eduHope that the Regents see the light that has been shining on them from staff, faculty, students, parents and the public, and therefore table J1 and J2 until SeptemberContinue planning for the rebuilding...

Faculty Associations Notify Regents of Cloud of Illegality Over Furloughs

Faculty Associations Notify Regents of Cloud of Illegality Over Furloughs

From the letter:Approval of Agenda Items J1 and J2 at the July Board meeting would violate University of California Standing Orders governing notice, and raise a cloud of illegality over already controversial actions. We urge that you not take the precipitous – and unlawful – actions requested by the President, and instead that you defer a vote of these weighty matters until...

Lakoff Letter Signers Top 1000, Stop the Cuts Petition Nears 2400

Lakoff Letter Signers Top 1000, Stop the Cuts Petition Nears 2400

See Action Items for latest versio...

Petition Writer's Response to Law Dean Chris Edley's Critique

Petition Writer's Response to Law Dean Chris Edley's Critique

Dear Chris, I barely recognized you in your angry ad hominem attack on the “stop the cuts” petition writers. continue readin...

SF Chronicle: Duelling Views on UC Budget

SF Chronicle: Duelling Views on UC Budget

Professors Chris Newfield and Stanton GlantzRegent Chair Russell Gould and President Mark Yud...

Faculty Associations Oppose Emergency Powers for UC President

Faculty Associations Oppose Emergency Powers for UC President

The Council of University of California Faculty Associations has stated to the Board of Regents that it "strongly opposes the grant of 'emergency' powers to UC’s President. continue readi...

Berkeley Law Dean Tees Off on Petition Writers

Berkeley Law Dean Tees Off on Petition Writers

Colleagues:The profound lack of knowledge reflected in the petition is utterlystaggering. continue readi...

Has the Leadership Given Up?

Has the Leadership Given Up?

Advocates of high-quality public higher ed should think seriously about - and respond to - the May 2009 comments of the Chair of the Board of Regents and the President of UC. They say the state funding model is broken, and in effect throw it away. Continue Readi...

Effects of Student Fee Hikes

Effects of Student Fee Hikes

The Regents are regularly assured by UCOP officials that UC fee hikes are not hurting undergraduate access: see the minutes for the May 2009 Finance Committee meeting, especially pp 5-7). The recently announced Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan for students from families below the median family income in California ($60,000) is a good thing, and UC does enroll higher proportions...

UC Death Watch 1

UC Death Watch 1

Today's Inside Higher Ed story reflects a trend towards the kind of grisly coverage of the effects of cuts that may concentrate some minds. The first line of the piece: "There’s blood in the water, and Vicki Ruiz knows everyone can smell it." continue readi...

Town Hall Meeting Annoucement UCSB

Town Hall Meeting Annoucement UCSB

The South Campus Way Caucus will be meeting on 6pm Tuesday 7/14, 962 West Campus Lane, Goleta (faculty condos). This is a group of UCSB employees who got organized for the Town Hall meeting and have been working together since on letter-writing, emailing etc. They are meeting to figure out what to do next, "since they feel this is only the beginning of our effort to take back...

The UC Pay Cut Issue

The UC Pay Cut Issue

Charles Schwartz has a useful analysis of the final UC pay cut/furlough proposals. Scroll down to find the July 12 addition. The core issue: the money collected from pay reductions still appears to be far in excess of the amount to be applied to budget shortfalls. What is supposed to happen with the rest of our missing salary money?Ann Adams has sent commentary on how much flexibility...

SIGN UC PETITION- STOP THE CUTS!

SIGN UC PETITION- STOP THE CUTS!

This is a link to a petition and signature page for a call for postponement of the cuts pending a proper budgetary revi...

ENDORSE THE LAKOFF LETTER TO UC REGENTS: SIGNATURES UPDATED

ENDORSE THE LAKOFF LETTER TO UC REGENTS: SIGNATURES UPDATED

This is a link to the letter and instructions for endorsemen...

WRITE YOUR REGENTS!

WRITE YOUR REGENTS!

The administration at at least one campus is now inviting direct contact between faculty and the Regents. These are their addresses. Do this! It is especially important given the top-down disarticulated nature of UC.See the first comment below for a model lette...

11 Points From UCSB Chairs

11 Points From UCSB Chairs

Received July 10The chairs present at the meeting (Economics, English, Feminist Studies, French/Italian, History, and Law & Society) presented 11 points expressing a broad (though not necessarily unanimous) consensus among the chairs. Some of these points were developed by the chairs in caucus earlier in the day after reading the proposal that President Yudoff announced in...

Save the CSU

Save the CSU

ACTION ALERT:Dear Friend,As we suffer the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, our government has bailed out banks, corporations, and executive management. Now these hard times are threatening our California educational system and our children's future. Governor Schwarzenegger is demanding cuts to higher education. In turn, CSU Chancellor Reed is taking steps that...

UCSB Town Hall: the Emergence of Option 4

UCSB Town Hall: the Emergence of Option 4

The most interesting news is that one of UC's unions is suing the university for full disclosure of financial records. More on this front soon.And here's a clip from the California Teacher's Association laying blame for the cuts at the door of Arnold Schwarzenengger, which UCOP and the Regents have been unwilling to do.The Sac Bee has a piece on Sacramento's 90,000 state workers...

Yudof Recommendations: Shrink Your Pay with Furloughs and Your Campus with Cuts

Yudof Recommendations: Shrink Your Pay with Furloughs and Your Campus with Cuts

President Mark Yudof's recommendation to the Regents has been posted on the Regent's meeting agenda. I haven't absorbed all of this 28 page document, but here are some insta-highlights:The recommendation is for furloughs (Option 2) rather than paycuts or a combination. This fits with the overwhelming majority view of the various Senate agencies that opined throughout the system.the...

Where's the Money?

Where's the Money?

We get letters:Chris,Enjoy your blog!One aspect I have never seen mentioned as UC faces what it -- once again -- seems to hope will be temporary budget cuts is the use of unrestricted funds that sit as unexpended balances on the various campuses. I have heard a figure quoted for UCSD (from a reliable source) of about $ 0.75 B for such unexpended balances, and -- looking at the...

Confrontational UCSB Town Hall on the Budget Crisis

Confrontational UCSB Town Hall on the Budget Crisis

Pending permission to use the more explicit accounts of this meeting that I've received, here's the most restrained of the bunch:No concessions were made but, that said, turnout was surprisingly strong and I think [Chancellor] Yang and [Executive Vice Chancellor] Lucas were likely surprised by the degree of anger and condemnation and by the strong suggestion that they had mishandled...

UC Berkeley Professor Opposes All Existing Pay Reduction Options

UC Berkeley Professor Opposes All Existing Pay Reduction Options

For what it's worth, here are my two cents re a statement to the Regents. There are three fundamental issues that need to be stressed: 1) No cuts of any kind should be implemented until there is a satisfactory accounting of what will happen to all the funds "saved" via the draconian cuts (I have in mind here the kind of discrepancies articulated in Charles Schwartz's memo that...

Changing the Budget Climate: What Happens if We Don't

Changing the Budget Climate: What Happens if We Don't

People ask me why I don't think we should just resign ourselves to cuts: look how bad the economy is, they say. People are really hurting.Of course they...

Statement of a Faculty Member at UCSB Budget Town Hall

Statement of a Faculty Member at UCSB Budget Town Hall

I believe that the heaviness of the blow Yudof and others propose to deal the University requires an equally strong response. The University has been getting along on a shoestring ever since the budget cuts of the early ‘90’s. Our libraries suffered gruesome cuts during years of relative economic prosperity. My department is smaller than it was twenty years ago. Our staff...

UCSB Flyer

UCSB Flyer

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UCLA Professor Responds to UCLA Sociology Letter on Cuts

UCLA Professor Responds to UCLA Sociology Letter on Cuts

Regarding the letter from the UCLA sociology dept circulated to the chancellor, various administrators, the dean of social sciences, and the chairs of the other social science departments.I am responding to one prominent feature of that message: the old refrain of creating two tiers within the UC system, this time with UCB, UCLA, and UCSD as the top tier. The UCLA sociologists...

Pushing for an Overall Fix

Pushing for an Overall Fix

Lots of UC folks assume that we have to cut everything because the state is out of money. It's not, and I'll say more about this pretty soon. In the meantime, this Seeking Alpha piece is worth reading for its unstinting hostility towards the political leadership that has managed to turn a recession into a crisis that will make the recession worse. One key paragraph reads,What...

Is Equity Fair? The Soft-Money Salary Exemption Issue

Is Equity Fair? The Soft-Money Salary Exemption Issue

UC faculty have not in general been opposing any kind of salary cut or demanding a better range of choices. Instead, many have gotten deeply involved...

An Objection to Equity in Pay Cuts for State and Non-State Employees

An Objection to Equity in Pay Cuts for State and Non-State Employees

It makes no sense to cut salaries or furlough people who are not funded by state funds, thereby hurting them and the University’s larger mission, simply so that pain can be inflicted on everyone and all programs equally.In addition, the great majority of people not funded by the state (non-FTE faculty and staff) have enjoyed little security because they are responsible for generating...