The moves include at least four layoffs, with the elimination of about 10 more positions that are vacant and won’t be filled. There will be a variety of other personnel moves, including cuts in temporary employees, student workers and interns. Some departments plan to shift full-time employees to part-time status or delay the hiring process for vacant positions.
A specific overview of personnel affected by the moves wasn’t available Monday. An outline of the plan is posted on Chancellor Brian Rogers’ website at www.uaf.edu/chancellor.
Despite the cuts within individual departments, the overall UAF budget increased slightly this year. UAF received a $5 million increase in state aid, a 3.3 percent increase, but other funding sources have leveled off. The UAF budget is about $400 million.
The cuts are needed to balance the budget, which has been strained by rising personnel costs and increases in areas including fuel, leases, library materials and travel. UAF personnel salaries climbed by 3-4.5 percent this year, according to a budget fact sheet, while benefits rose 10-15 percent.
Pat Pitney, UAF’s vice chancellor for administrative services, sent a memo to UAF employees in June warning that reductions would be necessary in every department on campus. The reductions ranged from a 6.4 percent cut at the chancellor’s office to a 2.1 percent cut at the College of Rural and Community Development.
The savings from those cuts will be funneled to a variety of other funding obligations on campus. Those include a $450,000 bookstore deficit, $400,000 for a life sciences lab and classroom facility, $735,000 for central reserves and $265,000 in museum debt service.
The budget reductions extend beyond personnel moves and include items such as reductions in travel, postage, printing and outreach expenses.
“I think it was a necessary process,” Pitney said. “Everyone in the university community took this seriously, and I think we’ve made some reductions so some of our priorities can go forward.”
Although the cuts were made specifically to address the fiscal 2011 budget, Pitney said the personnel changes are considered permanent. She said there are no plans to include those positions when the next fiscal year begins in July 2011.
The Newsminer should do a article tallying all the people laid off, positions eliminated, or hours reduced, and positions contracted out since the start of 2009 (if not a bit before). I think Fairbanks has been hit harder from recession cutting at UAF than people realize.
I wonder what the admin to student ratio is?
In three to five years that trend may come to change, for both private industry and government offices, if we are in luck. That is why we are engaging in this experiment with subsidized private health insurance (AKA ObamaCare)
How does U of A compare to Harvard:
http://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/schools/compare/results.html
28 percent of U of A's students graduate;
95% of Harvard's graduate.
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Flipped over:
72% of U of A's students drop out
5% of Harvard's students drop out.
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Pick some other Universities from the pick list.
A few of things come to mind:
1. Who says you can get the same work for a cheaper price?
2. Why would a contract worker stick around for a "cheaper price" [his salary], if another job opens up for a higher one?
3. Regular employees can grow with the organization, make a career; contract workers are generally in it for the short-term [their choice, or the contractor's].
University employees aren't day laborers or migrant farm workers (and even they have acquired skills over months and years, most of which aren't simple and/or self-evident).
Everyone loses when regular employees are turned into contract workers... everyone except the contractors. It's a lose-lose proposition for all concerned.
Ya,, thanks to Obama and his criminals,, we will all be paying for the destruction of America!! Spending money we do not have!!!!
thank you obama for the bailout of unions and the destruction of America!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, David Stockman (Ronald Reagan's OMB Director) said that the GOP broke America and the Democrats help them do it .. I thought we were headed back to the cave and going to use clam shells for currency.
Since they are running towards capitalism,, and we are running towards socialism,,, won't be long...
Second that motion,, but won't happen,,, congress looses power if we go to fair tax or national sales tax.
How else will rich people not have to pay taxes? Both the fair tax and sales tax would force them to pay taxes........but democrats don't want that!!!
Whats wrong with that,, if they can get the same work for a cheaper price,, why not contract out jobs,,, I shop for same quality, lower price...don't you?
Wonder how long it is going to be before they surpass America .. since we seem to be fighting along 'party' lines instead of educating our younger generation .. so they can excel in engineering, life sciences and other educational fields?
Yep, we need a few more basketball courts, instead of classrooms .. seems to be the mentality of politicians in Juneau.
Yep, the university is tightening their belt .. maybe we need to make those politicians pay us for the privilege of 'public service'. Think of all the money we could save .. on the road to ignorance.