Some recent items from Ray Schroeder’s Recession Realities in Higher Education Blog highlight the financial pressures colleges and universities are now really beginning to feel:
- The Senate voted 130-26 to approve a 1.15 percent salary reduction Thursday – Danielle Nordine, Minnesota Daily
- SIUE expected to forgo tuition hike, despite state’s budget problems – ELIZABETH DONALD, News-Democrat
- Senate votes to cut college funding – Associated Press [Michigan]
- N.J. colleges brace for more cuts – Adrienne Lu, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Local colleges prepared for budget cutbacks – SHERI McWHIRTER, Record-Eagle
- Fort Lewis College may lay off staff – Chuck Slothower, Durango Herald
- Staff editorial: Keep funding flowing – Diamondback, University of Maryland
- Bethany College revamping amidst budget crisis – KSN
- USM, TU faces further budget cuts – Daniel Gross, The Towerlight
- Ball State Makes Budget Cuts – InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report The Ball State University Board of Trustees has approved more than $15 million in bud
- State budget cuts down on college funds – Greg Flynn, Daily Targum For many University students, a higher education in New Jersey may soon required
Added on 4/1/10:
Lecturer layoffs could hit University of Michigan campus come fall – Juliana Keeping, AnnArbor.com
Layoffs could be on the way for the largest college at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. Departments in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts are considering scenarios that would include laying off members of the lecturers’ union to meet savings goals, officials confirmed. Individual departments’ savings plans could also include the consolidation of some classes and having tenure-track faculty teach more classes. If implemented, scenarios like these would result in fewer lecturers being needed, U-M spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said.