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“Next year is going to be a very tough year, maybe the toughest,” said Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, who was forced to reduce a full-time staff position last year to part-time.
Though Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith has said that the administration will not implement sweeping staff reductions, some department administrators are nevertheless concerned that their constrained budgets will make personnel restructuring inevitable.
FAS is currently in the early stages of the budgeting process that will lay the groundwork for the fiscal year ending June 2011. Despite the drastic measures taken last year to reduce a looming deficit, department administrators said they are looking to cope with further cuts in their allocated budgets...
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures is currently reviewing the possibility of restructuring staff assistance, according to department chair Wilt Idema. While structural changes are not uncommon in FAS departments, the move was precipitated by financial constraints to “see how the staff may be used...
Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson said that last year’s cuts in staff hours have reduced faculty access to staff assistance, even as concentrator numbers have doubled in the last four years.