Over the past few weeks, Chancellor Robert C. Holub has continued to email the campus community with updates on the budget crisis. His latest news is Governor Deval Patrick’s proposed allocation of $81.6 million in federal stimulus money to the UMass system in fiscal year 2010.
In an e-mail to the campus community March 12, Chancellor Robert Holub disclosed his plans for reorganizing the system of colleges on campus. A move that was initially intended to help compensate for the significant budget deficit UMass faces in Fiscal Year 2010, it is also described by Holub as an opportunity to make UMass more competitive as a top public research institution.
“Do more with less” is Chancellor Robert Holub’s message to UMass faculty as he presents and outlines a campus reorganization plan to address the $46 million budget deficit that the campus will face in fiscal year 2010.
Although gas prices have been rapidly falling in the past month, food prices may not follow suit, and consumers are looking for alternatives to the high-priced grocery store chains. Over the past several years, rising gas prices have pushed the price of food higher and higher as farmers and grocery stores struggled to make a profit while their production and transportation costs skyrocketed.
