The UNC system is putting its next budget request plan for next year.
A couple numbers jump out, and if you work for a public university, you won't want to see them.
The UNC system has been told to prepare scenarios to cut its budget by 5 and 10 percent.
That would be $135 million and $270 million, respectively.
With a 5 percent cut, about 800 positions would be cut across the university. With a 10 percent cut, 1,700 jobs would go. And unlike in recent years when campuses cut vaccant positions and administrative jobs, that cushion no longer exists, said Jeff Davies, UNC President Erskine Bowles' chief of staff.
"We're really going to impact the academic side," he told members of the UNC system's Board of Governors this morning. "We're talking about serious challenges in the university system over the next year."
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missing the point
Thu, 11/04/2010 - 22:00 — sanityY'all don't get how a college education works.
The general education requirements prepare students for a wide variety of jobs. Major classes enrich their experience, and may or may not be directly related to the jobs they take or seek after college. In many cases employers look for the degree more than the major; speaking as a psychology major with a ten-year career in information technology, I can assure you that's true. Women's studies, African-American studies and Community Organizing majors teach students valuable critical thinking and leadership skills that can transfer to many careers. It's short-sighted to dismiss majors that don't, on the surface, seem to be directly career-related. Higher education differs from trade school, and that's important. Students not only learn things that are practical and directly related to the course content, but also to synthesize information from many disciplines. This fosters creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship, and service.
Elections have results
Thu, 11/04/2010 - 17:35 — Notsurewhere_NCBased on Tuesday's results, programs the pump out community organizer, social engineers, diversity engineers need not exist. The people have spoken. Anyone working toward a degree in any discipline such as those listed above should immediately change majors. If not your future will be in the unemployment line with slim job pickings. As for unemployment compensation, that will be significantly curtailed. Bev will no longer take the BevJet to DC to plead with Chairman Obie for bailout funds. He won't have them. Obie's empty promise (another) of a "Recovery Summer" didn't happen. Welcome academia to the real world.
Welcome to the Great Recession, UNC Ivory Tower Profs !
Thu, 11/04/2010 - 16:39 — mike27513Well ,after two years in the Great Recession the Real World intrudes into Academia.
Maybe getting rid of degree programs like Community Organizing [ not kidding on this one], Women's Studies, Underwater Basket weaving, and the ever popular African American Studies will return the Universities to their primary mission of Educating students for responsible positions and productive efforts for North Carolina and the United States .