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Show ,/THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 8 BUDGET continued from Page 1 Associate Vice President for Budget and Planning Paul Brinkman said tuition and fees at the U will likely increase above last year's 5.9 percent raise, but the exact amount of the increase is still undecided. Brinkman said tuition and fees could model what happened at the U from 2002 through 2004, when Utah's economy was feeling strained because of technology stock falls in the late 1990s and the recession that followed Sept. 11. From 2001 to 2002, tuition at the U jumped from about a 5 percent increase to a 9.3 percent increase, and kept increasing in the 9 percent range until 2005. Based on those trends, Brinkman said this year's tuition and fees will likely increase more than usual, but the increases probably won't be in the double digits. Administrators are preparing to make budget cuts rather than trying to get additional revenue through tuition or other sources, Brinkman said. Although the U is still carrying on with its capital campaign, some departments might look to private funds to cover costs. "We can't put this on the back of the students, not entirely, but at the end of the day it's better to increase tuition rather than have something bad happen," Brinkman said. "We are sympathetic to students who are also facing a dicey economy—we're not the only ones." As part of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s $1.1 billion two-year budget cut proposal for the state released last week, he proposed to reduce the higher education budget by an additional 1.5 percent this year and 7 percent in the next fiscal year, which would be accomplished by bonding and backfilling. Utah System of Higher Education officials do not expect the Utah Legislature to be as kind with the system already preparing for the proposed 5 and 10 percent cuts and a possibility of even higher reductions. Legislative staff have submitted new requests for cuts of 7.5 percent this year and an additional 15 percent for the next fiscal year. Even with the smaller 5 and 10 percent cuts, the effects would be dramatic for higher education. According to the state system of higher education, with the 5 percent cut alone, Utah colleges and universities would have to lay off 500 faculty and staff members in the state, with 495 fewer student aid recipients, an increased reliance on adjunct faculty, large reductions in concurrent enrollment and the risk of "serious dilution of programs." With the proposed 10 percent cut for the next fiscal year, there would be double the faculty and student aid losses and the possibility of eliminating programs and departments. If the cuts are increased from there, members of the Utah State Board of Regents said this raises the question of how to prepare for the future. "Given the uncertainty, we are asking presidents to be extremely tight-fisted... and think ahead to what this would mean," Sederburg said. Although colleges and departments are still determining possibilities for ^Daily Utah Chronicle INVITES YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TO A SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING " " U tuition increase trends: 2000:3.7% 2001:5.1% 2002:9.3% 2003:9.7% 2004:9.7% From 2002-2004, the Utah economy was impacted by the technology stock falls of the late'90s and the recession that followed Sept. 11, Administrators predict that similar trends could follow this year, with the current economic recession. Source: Paul Brinkman, OBIA budget cuts, some departments are already implementing changes. The English department, for example, has decided to cut about half of its summer courses, only running courses that are central to the major. "The faculty are depressed," said English Department Chair Vince Pecora. "Some make a little extra money by teaching summer classes and it hurts the students because nowadays they count on the summer to fulfill requirements and help them graduate." The department is encouraging students who needed to take the classes during the summer to take them during the Spring Semester or choose another course route. Pecora said the department has also terminated two faculty searches, one for creative writing and one for gender studies and Asian American studies, which might not befilledif the economy doesn't improve soon. "Everybody's getting hurt," Pecora said. "We're trying to minimize the impact to students." r.mcconkie@chronicle.utah.edu Daily Utah Chronicle > INYITES YOU TO ENTTR-Tb^VlN Thursday, December 11, 2008 REMODEL continued from Page 1 pus need to be redesigned in order to withstand an earthquake, said Marty Shaub, director of the environmental and health safety department. She said the team is designing a list of priorities of what needs to be fixed first to make the U ready for a possible natural disaster. In order to fund the project, the Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded the U $500,000 in 2006, the largest grant FEMA has given to a university. FEMA also awarded the project team an additional $250,000 to begin research. "By the spring of '09, this thing should be pretty well wrapped up," said Pieter van der Have, senior facilities management consultant at the U. The first survey and predisaster mitigation plan was completed in 1989. It focused on the structural integrity of the buildings on campus. After 20 years of remodeling and new buildings, it was time to update that information. "This plan is updated for new buildings on campus that were built in the last 20 years, which is quite a few," van der Have said. Besides OSH, Merrill and Fletcher, Shaub said the top seven buildings that need remodeling include the Eyring Building, a high temperature water plant and a biology building. Shaub said FEMA will need to review and approve the plan, but it could take a while. "(We expect that) 2009 will be a big year for agency reorganizations...with the changes in the White House and Cabinet," Shaub said. The plan looks at estimated loss of life from natural disas- ters, damage potential, hazardous materials that would be released and how critical it is to bring each building up to date. To consider the danger posed by each building, Shaub and her team organized an advisory committee to address the concerns of students, faculty, research facilities and the U Hospital. Next, they examined each building on campus to determine how safe it was if a natural disaster was to strike. Research assistants from the College of Engineering took soil sampling to estimate what the ground under the U would do during an earthquake. Civil engineers then determined what effects the earthquake would have on each building. Researchers from the College of Architecture ran simulations to see what would happen inside the buildings. The David Eccles School of Business estimated damage costs. Armed with this data, Shaub and her team can predict injuries or fatalities caused by an earthquake on campus. With this data, they could also guess how much damage a facility, like the U Hospital, can take before it loses its ability to function. "We must ensure that they stay open at all costs," Shaub said. "You can't negotiate with a patient in a hospital to hang on while we stop being a hospital and go sit over here on the side." She said they can't release more exact data until the report is submitted. 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