College of Veterinary Medicine dean Dr. Warwick Arden, who’s also serving as provost, was on WUNC’s The State of Things today for a wide-ranging interview that touched on everything from the Easley scandal to NC State research to the proposed research lab in Butner to his childhood in Australia.
You can find the audio on The State of Things‘ home page.
On its Budget Central Web site, NC State has posted a memo and a 15-page document from Chancellor Jim Woodward that summarizes — in very specific details — how the 10-percent budget reductions, which total about $53 million, will impact campus. Some examples:
In the memo, Chancellor Woodward writes:
Without question, the impact of these reductions is significant. We allocated smaller reductions to academic units, yet we are still losing enough teaching positions that our instructional capacity will drop by about 3 percent. Low- enrollment programs are being eliminated, and new programs are being put on hold. We have protected General Education to a very large degree, but students’ opportunities to participate in academic enrichment and co-curricular programs — such as study abroad, leadership programs, service learning, and research — will diminish, thereby lessening their collegiate experience.
From the Bulletin, NC State’s faculty and staff newspaper:
NC State will lose 440 faculty and staff positions under the $53 million budget reduction plan submitted to the University of North Carolina system last week. The positions include 117 EPA faculty, 117 EPA professional and 206 SPA jobs. Forty percent of the jobs that will be eliminated — 176 — are currently filled. . . .
While the overall budget reflects a 10 percent reduction in state funding, colleges took smaller cuts, ranging from 3.36 percent for Humanities and Social Sciences to 8.55 percent for Textiles, [NC State Chancellor Jim] Woodward said.
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NC State has put together a handy Web portal that provides detailed information on the difficult budget situation the university faces. There are links to statements from the chancellor and information for faculty and staff, as well as students and families. There are also PDFs of memos and other documents on the Budget Central page, an FAQ page and a way for you to provide feedback.
And don’t forget to check out NC State magazine’s story (from the Summer 2009 issue) on the impact budget cuts could have on various units at the university.
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The NC State Creative Services office this week produced a couple of videos featuring Chancellor Jim Woodward and posted them to the university’s YouTube page. In the above Q&A, he talks about his first week, the budget and the impact NC State has on North Carolina. You can find video of Tuesday’s campus welcoming ceremony after the jump. (more…)
The deans at NC State have released a joint statement outlining the consequences of possible double-digit budget cuts and what steps they’re taking to reduce the impact:
NC State is planning for budget cuts in response to the state’s financial challenges. Although NC State is doing everything that it can to avoid affecting students’ progress towards their degrees, the university cannot absorb cuts without affecting classes and courses. We want to help students, their families, and the public to understand the extraordinary efforts we are taking to protect classes and courses, and, despite those efforts, the subsequent impacts of budget cuts.
NC State News Services has a profile of Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward on the university’s home page. In it, he talks about the university’s importance to North Carolina:
“We, as an institution, are ideally positioned to educate the students that need to work this new industry and to do the research that undergirds it in a way that no other institution is.
“There is no other institution in the state that has the responsibility that NC State does,” Woodward said. “In my view, at this point in time, NC State is the most important university in the state of North Carolina.”
There will be a welcoming event for him on Tuesday, June 16, at 12:30 p.m. in the North Plaza behind Talley Student Center.
Chancellor Jim Woodward released a statement Thursday afternoon regarding the budget. NC State has been planning for cuts as much as 18 percent. Here’s part of his statement:
I also will be meeting with members of the General Assembly to deliver a message in tune with [UNC System] President [Erskine] Bowles’ to minimize cuts and their impact on delivering a high quality education. Re-establishing lost trust with the political leadership is also an important task for me. Fortunately I’ve been in the state, I’ve been a chancellor, I know many of the political leaders, and I would hope they would see me as someone they can trust. And I am going to commit to them that they can trust me and trust the excellent people that do the work of this university.
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