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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.
In an e-mail sent out to the UMass Amherst campus community yesterday, Chancellor Holub announced the first results of the Budget Planning Task Force’s meetings. Over $500,000 will be cut from the central administration’s executive area, and a spending freeze of $5 million has been placed on capital construction, effective immediately.
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, UMass students gathered to discuss the university budget cut at a town hall-style meeting hosted by SGA President Malcolm Chu and Student Trustee Lindsay McKluskey.
Part 3 of a three-part series on Question 1.
Gov. Deval Patrick has already announced a mid-year budget cut of about five percent in response to the international financial crisis. According to a mass e-mail sent by Chancellor Robert C. Holub, UMass Amherst’s campus alone will lose $12 million. Holub says cuts will begin immediately and will affect next year’s fiscal budget. If the Question 1 initiative passes, those cuts would be added on top of these.
vox pop: [origin: Latin vōx populī] noun — the voice of the people; popular opinion.
Have an opinion? Make it heard! AW Vox Pop is an ongoing forum for UMass students to voice their thoughts on community issues. We go on campus, film your opinions and publish them online, and invite you to participate through posting comments or sending in your own video responses.
Our first issue is the UMass budget cut. On Oct. 15, Chancellor Holub announced in an e-mail to the campus community that approximately $12 million will be cut from the university’s budget in response to Governor Deval Patrick’s mid-year budget cut of 5 percent due to the economic crisis. Your reactions to the announcement and opinions on what you think UMass should (or shouldn’t) reduce funding for. Go to this issue →
