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Axe not on whom the bill falls
Apr. 28th, 2009 08:50 amThe University has finally learned what the budget cut is going to be this biennium. The state is cutting its contribution to the budget by 26%, but it is allowing the University to raise tuition enough that the actual reduction of the budget will be 12%. This is obviously still a massive cut, and there will be layoffs. Administrative units such as the one I work in will be hit harder than academic units.
I don't really know how I will be affected by this. I don't expect that I will lose my job (I've got twenty years of seniority), but it's possible I'll take a pay cut. The Registrar told us this morning that if anyone wants to voluntarily look at reducing their hours, now's the time to step forward. One of my co-workers died of lupus earlier this year, and she had been out for months. Her position will not be filled, and we've known that since last Fall and have already restructured the work in our office around that. Someone in the other office my boss manages is retiring at the end of the month, and her position won't be filled either.
Hm. I guess this is just an anxiety post. No particular point to it, except now we know the size of the budget shortfall. Later in the week we will start getting a more concrete sense of what it all means on the ground here.
I don't really know how I will be affected by this. I don't expect that I will lose my job (I've got twenty years of seniority), but it's possible I'll take a pay cut. The Registrar told us this morning that if anyone wants to voluntarily look at reducing their hours, now's the time to step forward. One of my co-workers died of lupus earlier this year, and she had been out for months. Her position will not be filled, and we've known that since last Fall and have already restructured the work in our office around that. Someone in the other office my boss manages is retiring at the end of the month, and her position won't be filled either.
Hm. I guess this is just an anxiety post. No particular point to it, except now we know the size of the budget shortfall. Later in the week we will start getting a more concrete sense of what it all means on the ground here.
