Senate Hears Money-Saving Ideas for 2012

At the final Faculty Senate meeting of the school year, senators heard a report from a committee charged with exploring possible money-saving measures to help the campus bridge an anticipated budget gap in 2012. Ideas ranged from to increasing class sizes to outsourcing certain campus jobs.

Sen. J.C. Mutchler, assistant professor of history at UA South, presented the report from the SPBAC 2012 committee, a subgroup of the Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee that was established in the fall by President Robert N. Shelton and Provost Meredith Hay.  read more »