CSUN University News Clippings

Cuts at campuses

(July 16, 2009)

The University of California is cutting its budget by about $813 million. Half the cuts are systemwide – including employee pay reductions and student fee increases. The other half will be at individual campuses, including:

UC Davis

• Cut 60 teaching assistant positions

• Eliminate 39 senior management positions

• Keep 200 faculty positions vacant

• Cancel or delay construction projects including new buildings for the music, veterinary and engineering departments

UC Irvine

• Eliminate one vice chancellor’s office

• Limit number of students who can enroll in the nursing program to 50 per year, a quarter of the size it was intended to be

• Reduce number of employees from last year by 309 through layoffs and attrition

• Cancel freshman seminar programs

• Encourage faculty to give up land lines and use only cell phones

• No longer heat water in public bathrooms

UCLA

• Reduce funding for research centers by 50 percent; teaching support services by 40 percent; and student services by 10 percent

• Increase housing and parking fees

• Increase average class size to 60 students in fall 2009

• Cut number of courses available this fall by 10 percent

UC San Diego

• Lay off more than 200 people

• Leave more than 800 positions open

UC Berkeley

• Reduce number of courses offered by 8 percent

• Cut number of graduate student instructors by 20 percent

• Reduce library hours

• Cut work study opportunities for students

UC Riverside

• Increase student advising ratio from 300-to-1 to 500-to-1

• Eliminate one vice chancellorship

UC Santa Barbara

• Reduce staff by 235 positions through layoffs, leaving positions unfilled and reducing work time

• Suspend search for two vice chancellors

• Sell an off-campus building

UC Santa Cruz

• Reduce incoming freshmen class by 750 students compared with last year

• Eliminate 55 faculty positions

• Cut library hours and reduce book purchases and subscriptions to scholarly journals

Publication: Sacramento Bee