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Some clarification is certainly on the way. In a letter circulated to Department chairs yesterday afternoon, top FAS officials announced several cost-cutting measures that included a hold on searches for tenure-track faculty and a stay on any salary raises for faculty and non-union staff. The letter urged department leaders to keep news of the cuts quiet until their announcement at today’s meeting...
...freeze on salary raises for all faculty and non-union staff members as well as a hold on the bulk of current searches for tenure-track and tenured faculty were among the cost-cutting measures announced in a letter circulated to department chairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday afternoon...
Citing a projected 30 percent drop in the University’s endowment value this year, the deans wrote that the cost-cutting measures followed from a need to reduce the budget for the next fiscal year to levels at least $105 million below the current year’s budget. The Faculty’s budget for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2009 is set to be completed by March...
...failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic. Adding to the tangle of questions was the fact that even as he was living in those New York apartments and being charged less than half what they would have cost on the going market, Rangel was claiming a homestead exemption on a house he owns in Washington, D.C. (See Rangel on the Top 10 outrageous earmarks list...
...Friday, yet another potential problem surfaced for Rangel, when Politico.com reported that he had paid his son $80,000 in campaign funds "for a pair of political websites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create." Says congressional scholar Tom Mann: "It's very sad, but it's sort of one thing after another ... It's still too early to tell what the resolution will be, but it certainly isn't helpful that new items keep emerging...