UNR announces tentative plans to cut School of Social Work, degree programs, faculty
Read the in-depth update here.
The University of Nevada, Reno announced today its plan to close the School of Social Work and degree programs in theater, dance and French, along with making significant reductions to student services. Administrators will put the plan into action if the Legislature passes Gov. Brian Sandoval’s proposed budget.
UNR’s announced proposal makes up about half of the $59 million in cuts Sandoval proposed in his budget two months ago. UNR President Milton Glick said he is hopeful the governor and Legislature will see the impact of the proposed cuts and try to find another way to solve the state’s budget woes.
If the Legislature passes Sandoval’s budget as-is, UNR plans to make the following reductions to account for the first $26 million of cuts. Where the rest of the money will come from has not been released.
Some of the university services and programs proposed for reduction and closure by July 1, 2012, are:
- Closure of the School of Social Work and related degrees.
- Closure of academic programs and degrees in theater and dance.
- Closure of the degree major of French.
- Closure of the Special Collections Department within the university libraries. Current collections would remain archived.
- Eliminating 225 positions. Of those positions, 150 have people working in those jobs. The rest were being held open in anticipation of budget cuts.
- Additional and significant reduction in student services, including reductions in the Disability Resource Center, Center for Cultural Diversity, Student Success Services, Student Conduct, Recruitment and Admissions and Records. Additional student services will move to fee-based support.
- Additional and significant reduction in university-wide information technology services and the libraries’ material budget.
- Significant reduction in University of Nevada Cooperative Extension. Following a projected $5.5 million cut, some presence along with educational services would continue in all Nevada counties through federal, county and limited state funding. The statewide 4-H program would continue.
- Significant reduction in the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. Following a projected $1.1 million cut, the role of the Nevada State Geologist and related services, which are defined by Nevada Revised Statutes, would continue.
- Additional and significant reduction in the Facilities Department, which will further impact custodial and maintenance services and all university campuses and facilities.
The Nevada Sagebrush will release a more in-depth story in its Tuesday print edition. Be sure to pick up a copy of the newspaper on stands around campus, or check nevadasagebrush.com later tonight.
Jessica Fryman can be reached at jfryman@nevadasagebrush.com.
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7 Responses to “UNR announces tentative plans to cut School of Social Work, degree programs, faculty”
acceptable things that the university could ACTUALLY cut [but wont]:
* clubs and orgs funding for mostly-useless events (hey ASUN, ever heard of fundraising? everyone else has)
* all of ASUN, for that matter
* Sagebrush! (make it online-only)
* …stop putting plasma tvs in the fucking res halls!
* wolfpack radio (i’d rather have a degree program, honestly)
* campus escort (either have the buses cut off at a earlier hour or have them run later and cut campus escort entirely)
* any event that offers free food and shirts. they aren’t free; we’re paying for them.
Increase reliance on private donations for
* Library
* Athletics
This is unacceptable. How do they decide what is important and not? How can you cut a program that is GOVERNMENT MANDATED [disability resource center] to exist? Who the fuck are actually making these decisions? Do they not understand the proliferation of useless things on this campus that can be cut and not missed?
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Sagebrush is not state funded! Get your facts straight before making a statement.
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Ty,
One problem: most of what you list is derived from non-state dollars. You could cut ASUN to zero and that still won’t make up for lost general fund money, unless you divert that fee revenue. Since that fee revenue was assessed for a specific purpose (ASUN, for example), reallocating that money isn’t quite so easy. And ASUN only amounts to $1.5 million, or 2.5 percent, of the cuts.
ASUN may be wasteful spending (how many faculty are on staff in a student government?), but the real problem is declining state support of higher education.
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Ty is absolutely correct. Our university is notorious for spending money frivolously on programs which they deem as necessary but are little used. How about we take a look at highly over paid professors as the first source of money that should be cut. We have nearly 150 employees making over $200,000 dollars a year. There is no way to justify public employees making this much money at our expense. Not to mention Glick’s $475,940.83 salary. How can you possibly justify paying him more than the President of the United States??? Or better yet, Dr. William Zamboni, who makes $1,385,872.20… Am I the only one who is disgusted by this? Everyone should take a trip to http://www.transparentnevada.com and take a look at just how many overpaid employees we have in the state of Nevada.
I’m not saying that it is wrong for people to make alot of money, I’m saying that it is wrong for government employees to make that much money. If they want to go work their butts off at a private institution to earn that much money then more power to them; but, not on my dime at a public institution.
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As disheartening as these cuts can be, they are proposed cuts, and will only happen if we allow the Governor’s budget to stand. We have an opportunity to take action for ourselves, our friends and colleagues, and the entire State of Nevada. It is my hope that we use this as motivation to stand up, and refuse to accept these cuts.
Join us at the Rally for Education on 3/21 in Carson City. GSA and ASUN and providing buses, which will leave from the Joe Crowley Student Union at 8:45am for the 10am Rally in front of the Legislature.
Sign up for a seat on the bus here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6WRWDLP
Get event details here:
North: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139146729485181
South: http://www.facebook.com/NevadaASUN/posts/10150091653447735
This is not over – tell your professors and employers how important this is, and realize that by missing class for one day, we have the opportunity to keep those classes from being eliminated.
In Solidarity,
Matt Smith
President
Graduate Student Association
pgsa@unr.edu
http://www.unr.edu/gsa/budget.html
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To Alex: Before you make your baseless comments, how about actually investigating how much Dr. Zamboni gets paid by the State funds. If you would bother to do it, you’ll find out that most of his salary money comes from his practice and NOT from the state. The same is true for many other professors – their listed pay includes both state funds and other, non-state funds. Transparent Nevada is not overly transparent as it does not specifically report how much faculty are paid by the state.
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It’s horrible that Academic programs are being cut over sports. To think that the University System is giving up on educating young minds, and promoting things that few can use after college. A degree in French can be used in many fields. Social Work degrees are equally important. It just shows that too many people get their hands in the “State” cookie jar and ruin it for everyone else.
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