{"id":3282,"date":"2010-03-30T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2010-04-01T22:32:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T02:32:26","slug":"more-changesfinancial-pressures-in-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/30\/more-changesfinancial-pressures-in-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"More changes\/financial pressures in higher ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some recent items from<\/strong> <strong>Ray Schroeder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/recessionreality.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recession Realities in Higher Education Blog<\/a> highlight the financial pressures colleges and universities are now really beginning to feel:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndaily.com\/2010\/03\/25\/faculty-senate-approves-pay-cut\" target=\"_blank\">The  Senate voted 130-26 to approve a 1.15 percent salary reduction Thursday  &#8211; Danielle Nordine, Minnesota Daily<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnd.com\/2010\/03\/26\/1189968\/siue-expected-to-shun-tuition.html\" target=\"_blank\">SIUE  expected to forgo tuition hike, despite state&#8217;s budget problems &#8211;  ELIZABETH DONALD, News-Democrat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100324\/NEWS06\/3240403\/1008\/Michigan-news-Senate-votes-to-cut-college-funding\" target=\"_blank\">Senate   votes to cut college funding &#8211; Associated Press [Michigan]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/homepage\/88890247.html\" target=\"_blank\">N.J.  colleges brace for more cuts &#8211; Adrienne Lu, Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.record-eagle.com\/local\/local_story_084071617.html\" target=\"_blank\">Local  colleges prepared for budget cutbacks &#8211; SHERI McWHIRTER, Record-Eagle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/durangoherald.com\/sections\/News\/2010\/03\/25\/Fort_Lewis_College_may_lay_off_staff\/\">Fort  Lewis College may lay off staff &#8211; Chuck Slothower, Durango Herald<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diamondbackonline.com\/opinion\/staff-editorial-keep-funding-flowing-1.1279946\" target=\"_blank\">Staff  editorial: Keep funding flowing &#8211; Diamondback, University of Maryland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksn.com\/content\/news\/bureaus\/story\/Bethany-College-revamping-amidst-budget-crisis\/I-TL6XZ_XUSADodJtT63aw.cspx\" target=\"_blank\">Bethany  College revamping amidst budget crisis &#8211; KSN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetowerlight.com\/usm-tu-faces-further-budget-cuts-1.2196750\" target=\"_blank\">USM,  TU faces further budget cuts &#8211; Daniel Gross, The Towerlight<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideindianabusiness.com\/newsitem.asp?ID=40739\" target=\"_blank\">Ball  State Makes Budget Cuts &#8211; InsideINdianaBusiness.com Report  The Ball  State University Board of Trustees has approved more than $15 million in  bud<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytargum.com\/news\/state-budget-cuts-down-on-college-funds-1.2197102\" target=\"_blank\">State  budget cuts down on college funds &#8211; Greg Flynn, Daily Targum   For many  University students, a higher education in New Jersey may soon required<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Added on 4\/1\/10:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellandtribune.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2509627\">Lecturer layoffs could hit University of Michigan campus come fall &#8211; Juliana Keeping, AnnArbor.com<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Layoffs could be on the way for the largest college at the University of Michigan&#8217;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&#8217; union to meet savings goals, officials confirmed. Individual departments&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some recent items from Ray Schroeder&#8217;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 &#8211; Danielle Nordine, Minnesota Daily SIUE expected to forgo tuition hike, despite state&#8217;s budget problems &#8211; ELIZABETH DONALD, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,36,35],"tags":[52,600,614,586],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","tag-budgetary","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-change","tag-future-of-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}