ASU Rearranges Things To Meet Budget
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Arkansas State University is rearranging
some course schedules and faculty assignments just two weeks before
the fall semester.
The university is citing an excess of off-budget requests --
unused funds used to pay for requests that aren`t budgeted. Vice
chancellor for research and academic affairs Susan Allen says this
year ASU has more requests for that money than usual.
For example, instead of hiring its usual 20 tenure-track
faculty, this year ASU had to hire about 30.
Some faculty members criticize the administration, saying they
have mismanaged money and didn`t pay attention to how much was
available for new hires.
Estimates for the shortfall have been as high as $1.2 million and as low as $450,000.
