Apr 29th, 2010 | By admin | Category: April 29, 2010, Campus News
Editor’s Note — Chancellor Harvey Perlman issued this April 21 e-mail proposing an additional $1.5 million in budget reductions.Today (April 21) I am announcing the second and final round of budget reductions for this spring.
In March, I proposed reductions totaling $3.5 million that affected IANR’s Communications and Information Technology unit, the Lentz Center for Asian Culture, the Office of Research, and one position in the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor. These reductions were approved by the Academic Planning Committee last week and have been finalized.
Today’s round of $1.5 million in budget reductions affects more units and includes some structural changes that should bring budget savings in the future.
Regrettably, the budget reductions will mean the elimination of some positions at the university, and I realize that we are negatively impacting lives and careers. Please do all that you can to support the individuals affected, and know that there are support services in place for them through Human Resources. It was not necessary to eliminate any filled tenure-line faculty
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Showing once again the hypocrisy and the Bull$hit spewing forth from Perlman and Osborne's mouth about the move to the Big 10 being about academics. We're talking about a school that has cut academic programs right and left that will now take money out of its general funds to buy its way out of an athletic conference.