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Show Budget cut causes layoff of U employes University students and faculty will begin to feel the effects of a $1.5 million cutback in the University expenditures as the University tightens its belt. The first to feel the budget cutback will be approximately 200 University employes who will be laid off July 1. President Alfred C. Emery announced an-nounced the layoffs Tuesday in reviewing the planned re-distribution in University funds. The cutback will affect administrative operations, student health service and counseling, public service programs and research equipment and remodeling. "Several hundred employes will be laid off, most of whom have already been told," he said. "The reductions will affect both full-and full-and part-time employes," he said. The specific number of employes to be laid off is, as of yet, unknown. The layoffs are being handled by the various University vice-presidents and college deans. President Emery stated that although the state (legislature granted the University a 96 percent increase in state appropriations, ap-propriations, rising fixed costs combined with the slight decrease in donations resulted in a net budget increase of only 2.7 percent. Students will also be affected by the University cutback. Student health and counseling programs have been cut $185,000. This reduction in finances may result in an increased fee rate for student services. Another alternative is to drastically drasti-cally reduce the number of different services offered by University agencies to students. Although there will be no elimination of total academic programs, departments or colleges, some class sections will be consolidated. This will mean a reduction in the number of times a day a class is offered. Students may also notice effects of the cutback as some library services will also be consolidated. A large share of the $1.5 million to be trimmed will come from a $365,000 cut in administrative services. The University had hoped to prevent any budget cutbacks by either receiving a substantial increase in state appropriations or by raising tuition. The legislature allocated $26.3 million in state funds for the University which was an increase of about $2.5 million over the previous year. The University requested over $30 million and felt this was a minimum operating figure. The legislature also passed a motion binding the State Board of Higher Education to prevent any increases in tuition. Under the circumstances, stated President Emery, the only solution to our financial squeeze was to carefully cut the University budgets. "Rather than across-the-board cuts," he said, specific areaswere selected after careful examination by the administration, admini-stration, the academic deans and the Executive Exec-utive Committee of the University Senate which includes both students and faculty." |
