Post by Bornthrilla on Jan 29, 2011 19:32:40 GMT -5
N.C. colleges planning for 15% cuts
Saturday, January 29, 2011
(Updated 3:00 am)
By Jonnelle Davis
Staff Writer
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GREENSBORO — As the state’s public universities search for ways to deal with budget reductions that could cut as deep as 15 percent, class sections, faculty positions, programs and services could all go on the chopping block.
“We are considering everything. Nothing is off the table this time,” said Robert Pompey, N.C. A&T’s vice chancellor for business and finance.
UNC system leaders recently asked campuses to prepare plans for 15 percent reductions. For A&T, that means a loss of more than $15 million; at UNCG, $25.9 million.
Pompey said those staggering figures call for a different course of action than in previous years. The university has formed a committee to review all of A&T’s academic and administrative functions to determine where the university can save dollars and be more efficient.
“We’re looking at all areas, and we’re really not taking the traditional look that we may have taken in prior years,” Pompey said. “It is necessary this time around because the reduction is so much more than what it’s been before, so it really requires that we be even more strategic and even smarter than what we had been before.”
Pompey said he expects final recommendations from that committee in mid-March.
UNCG Chancellor Linda Brady said this week that she has directed the provost and each of the vice chancellors to think about plans for a 15 percent cut “with an emphasis on what programs and services we may no longer be able to offer.”
Still, Brady said, no definite course of action has been charted. She said the university will know more once Gov. Bev Perdue releases her budget, which she is scheduled to do in February.
Read more:
www.news-record.com/content/2011/01/28/article/nc_colleges_planning_for_15_cuts
Saturday, January 29, 2011
(Updated 3:00 am)
By Jonnelle Davis
Staff Writer
.
GREENSBORO — As the state’s public universities search for ways to deal with budget reductions that could cut as deep as 15 percent, class sections, faculty positions, programs and services could all go on the chopping block.
“We are considering everything. Nothing is off the table this time,” said Robert Pompey, N.C. A&T’s vice chancellor for business and finance.
UNC system leaders recently asked campuses to prepare plans for 15 percent reductions. For A&T, that means a loss of more than $15 million; at UNCG, $25.9 million.
Pompey said those staggering figures call for a different course of action than in previous years. The university has formed a committee to review all of A&T’s academic and administrative functions to determine where the university can save dollars and be more efficient.
“We’re looking at all areas, and we’re really not taking the traditional look that we may have taken in prior years,” Pompey said. “It is necessary this time around because the reduction is so much more than what it’s been before, so it really requires that we be even more strategic and even smarter than what we had been before.”
Pompey said he expects final recommendations from that committee in mid-March.
UNCG Chancellor Linda Brady said this week that she has directed the provost and each of the vice chancellors to think about plans for a 15 percent cut “with an emphasis on what programs and services we may no longer be able to offer.”
Still, Brady said, no definite course of action has been charted. She said the university will know more once Gov. Bev Perdue releases her budget, which she is scheduled to do in February.
Read more:
www.news-record.com/content/2011/01/28/article/nc_colleges_planning_for_15_cuts
