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California's crisis continues while Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders inch slowly toward agreement on the deep cuts necessary to close the state's massive $26 billion budget shortfall. Now, even as California continues to pay its bills with IOUs, the University of California, the nation's leading public university, is being forced to cut its budget by $813 million - or 20%. It is highly unlikely that these cuts will be reduced by a budget agreement in Sacramento...
...Board of Regents approved on July 16 an emergency budget plan that would force 80% of the system's 180,000 employees to take unpaid furloughs of 11 to 26 days over the next year. UC president Mark Yudof said the furlough plan was preferable to layoffs in an enormous system that includes five medical centers, three national laboratories and 225,000 graduate and undergraduate students. UC officials have yet to secure agreement on the furlough plan from the unions that represent 35% of university employees. (See pictures of the career of California First Lady Maria Shriver...
...furloughs will only cover approximately a quarter of the UC deficit. The rest will come from a 10% increase in tuition, debt refinancing and dramatic budget cuts at individual UC campuses, as testimony to the Board of Regents from the system's chancellors revealed on July 15. At UC Berkeley, according to Chancellor Robert Birgenau, campus libraries will be closed on Saturdays and will no longer stay open 24 hours during final exams (a longtime campus tradition). He said UC Berkeley is "the only university among our competitors whose faculty are taking a furlough," adding that faculty salaries already...
Months after launching a Web site billed as a tool for budget cutting transparency, Harvard's largest school quietly inserted three minor cuts to summer services at student-focused offices for sexual assault, study aid, and alcohol and drug prevention...
...point for Harvard Depository materials owned by other libraries as of July 7, and materials from other libraries cannot be called to Fung either. Furthermore, Fung will no longer provide course reserve materials beginning in the fall. Those materials will now be provided at Lamont Library instead."These were budget-driven changes," said HCL spokeswoman Beth S. Brainard in an interview with The Crimson, adding that by outsourcing course reserve preparation duties to Lamont and restricting circulation, Fung would be able to reduce expenditures but maintain core services. "[The collections] are not circulating because there is a cost associated with...