Stagnant enrollment,
Shrinking state support,
Rising Energy costs,
Rising health costs
are blamed.
Cutting 17 nonacademic jobs, in student affairs,
Not filling eight vacant positions,
Travel restrictions,
Eliminating German, geology and geography (All G's) majors,
Eliminating honors program,
Consolidating three schools into one to reap savings through cooperation,
Cutting 20.5 full-time academic jobs, some tenured, from those three programs,
Cutting one job from the libary,
Eliminate some administrative staff jobs,
is the proposed answer.
Question: how does a business, any business, education or otherwise find itself with a $4 million shortfall?
Where were the decision makers when there was a $1000 shortfall, $10,000, $100,000, $1 million and so on?
Did enrollments all dry up in one year?
Did the state suddenly stop sending money?
Cuts should have been made a long time ago....decisions that would increase enrollments should have happened a long time ago.
It reminds me of the seven years of feasting followed by the seven years of famine in the book of Exodus.
What do you think?
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