Damn.
Excerpted:
"I am writing to update you regarding the ramifications of Rutgers' $66.1 million funding shortfall in the newly enacted state budget. This inadequate level of state funding is exacerbated by unavoidable cost increases in areas such as utilities and insurance, leaving Rutgers with a total shortfall of $80.4 million this year, the largest in our history.
We expect to save several million dollars through a wide range of efficiencies ...the bulk of this reduction, however, will come from the elimination of an estimated 750 positions, an action we take with great reluctance.
To close the funding gap, we must also, unfortunately, increase tuition and fees.
Rutgers will also absorb the budget shortfall by cutting back on the number of courses offered in the coming year.
In addition, the university will eliminate six intercollegiate varsity sports in New Brunswick/Piscataway.
And cuts in administrative areas will have far-reaching impacts on every support function, including our ability to monitor environmental compliance, maintain our computing and information technology infrastructure, and care for our buildings and grounds."
I don't think this will affect graduate students quite as much as the undergrads, but obviously it will affect everyone. But the tuition increase will be really hard on some of the undergrads around here. And I'm trying to figure out which 750 positions will be closed...
"I am writing to update you regarding the ramifications of Rutgers' $66.1 million funding shortfall in the newly enacted state budget. This inadequate level of state funding is exacerbated by unavoidable cost increases in areas such as utilities and insurance, leaving Rutgers with a total shortfall of $80.4 million this year, the largest in our history.
We expect to save several million dollars through a wide range of efficiencies ...the bulk of this reduction, however, will come from the elimination of an estimated 750 positions, an action we take with great reluctance.
To close the funding gap, we must also, unfortunately, increase tuition and fees.
Rutgers will also absorb the budget shortfall by cutting back on the number of courses offered in the coming year.
In addition, the university will eliminate six intercollegiate varsity sports in New Brunswick/Piscataway.
And cuts in administrative areas will have far-reaching impacts on every support function, including our ability to monitor environmental compliance, maintain our computing and information technology infrastructure, and care for our buildings and grounds."
I don't think this will affect graduate students quite as much as the undergrads, but obviously it will affect everyone. But the tuition increase will be really hard on some of the undergrads around here. And I'm trying to figure out which 750 positions will be closed...