UPDATE: 7/17/09
On Forum today, a discussion of the recent University of California Board of Regents decision to approve a furlough plan. The move is aimed at reducing the effects of $813 million in state budget cuts. The vote was 20-1 to force more than 100,000 employees to take up to 26 unpaid days by Aug. 31, 2010. Unions representing about 40 percent of UC employees will need to accept the furloughs.
The furloughs amount to a pay cut of up to 10 percent. Additionally, higher-paid employees will take more furlough days than lower-paid workers. The furloughs begin on Sept. 1 and are expected to make up for one-quarter of the state cuts.
The university will account for the remaining cuts by including campus-specific cuts that will impact library hours, faculty hiring and other operations.
University leaders also say that UC would dip into reserves to pay for Cal Grants for about 46,000 students whose scholarships are likely to be delayed by the state's budget problems.
7/16/2009
On California Report, a story about how state budget woes are impacting California higher education. Today, University of California regents are expected to approve spending cuts to offset the more than $800 million the university won't be getting from the state. Many people are opposed to these cuts and warn that the cuts will scare away valued researchers from the UC system. YMI's Denise Tejada has more specifics on what the potential cuts entails.
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