2008 Woodie Awards
Possible UGA budget cuts vary, will last two years
New budget may impede upon students' success
GREG WILSON
Issue date: 7/24/08 Section: News
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The plan submitted to the Board of Regents last week outlines how the University would make due with less in the 2009 and 2010 financial years.
Each department and budgetary unit was asked, considering its core missions, where cuts would be made if it had to cut 3.5 percent or 5 percent, Provost Arnett Mace said in a telephone interview Wednesday.
"[The process] was a bottom-up, with budgetary units providing information, then the three senior vice presidents as well as the budget office and the president made the decision relative to the information provided," Mace said. "This is a strong university, and we have a strong faculty. I am confident we will get through these trying times."
Although the cuts will affect departments and services across the board, Mace is most concerned with "being able to continue to provide the quality of education that we have in the past. This quality is demonstrated by the number of national awards [students] have received over the past few years."
The budget cuts do not spare campus safety and security. With the 3.5 percent cut, the University police will be forced to remove five public safety positions, and with the 5 percent cut, 6.8 positions.
"Protecting the community is a partnership. If we sustain the cut in the maximum or in the lower level, there will be services that we will no longer be able to provide. For example, for every case there is some sort of follow-up by the Criminal Investigation Division. With the cuts, we would have to set parameters for follow-ups," University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said. "Each shift will be cut by one or two officers. ... It's tough times. We would prefer to not have the cut, but there is not much we can do."
The University would first cut travel funds. Although travel accounts for only one-third of a percent of the budget, the report states the funds are easily sacrificed and less essential. Cutting travel funds 27 percent would save $478,287.
According to the budget plan, to meet the 3.5 percent budget cuts, $5.4 million would have to be cut from the resident instruction budget for faculty - or 60 faculty positions - through elimination of vacant faculty lines (tenured positions), delays in filling vacancies and part-time faculty.
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Amy S.
posted 7/24/08 @ 10:50 AM EST
"The plan submitted to the Board of Regents last week outlines how the University would make due with less in the 2009 and 2010 financial years."
"make due?" really? try "make do. (Continued…)
ugaprof
posted 7/24/08 @ 11:18 AM EST
Is there any way to:
(1) divert money from athletics to academics?
(2) cut back the number of students we're admitting, if we're cutting back the funds for educating them?
more
posted 7/25/08 @ 1:37 PM EST
there is a university/state athletic budget.
how about a series of articles about the relationship of athletic association funds, university funds, state funds? also, include the amount of money in sports, where it comes from, where it goes. (Continued…)
mansfield
posted 7/27/08 @ 2:43 PM EST
The funding formula in the University System of Georgia is by credit hours produced. This is regardless of whether those credits are produced by a student "paying" in-state tuition or by a student paying out-of-state tuition. (Continued…)
Anna Lee
posted 7/29/08 @ 11:40 AM EST
Always interesting that we cut faculty and faculty salaries first. I guess administrators and their annual salary increases are essential to the mission of the university!!
S-H-A-R-E is a one syllable word that no one seems to know how to pronounce! Reduce everyone's wages and stay within your budget. (Continued…)
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