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Faculty Senate Meeting [9/14/2012]
Published: 09-19-12
Giving faculty and staff a 3 percent pay raise will require $5 million in cuts aimed at various units of the college given the current budget situation, Louise Love, interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, told the first Faculty Senate meeting of the fall semester. Specifically, $2 million will be cut from the Academic Affairs fiscal 2013 budget, she said. Love and Ken Gotsch, vice president of Business Affairs and chief financial officer, came to the Sept. 14 meeting to answer questions about the raises.
Read the full story by our Campus Editor, Alex Kukulka, in the Sept. 17 edition of The Columbia Chronicle! Also check out the story here on our website!
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Louise Love, vice president for Academic Affairs and interim provost, has asked to clarify remarks she made at the Sept. 14th Faculty Senate meeting which were published in the Sept. 17th Chronicle and implied that the 3 percent salary raises granted to the faculty and staff will require the college to make $5 million in budget cuts. Love says it was the drop in enrollment that will require the cuts, not the raises, which had already been budgeted. Says Love: “The unanticipated steep decline in fall enrollment has created a $5 million gap in the FY 13 budget. The 3 percent increase in salaries for faculty and non-union staff was a commitment that the college made when building the FY 13 budget. I may have inadvertently drawn a causal relationship between the two.”