Thursday, December 13, 2012

Washington State University cutting 360 jobs - Business First of Buffalo:

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The Pullman-based university released a preliminary budget plan on May 1 afteer the state Legislature announced an operatingt budget that included significant cuts tohigher education. Wednesday’s announcemenf reflects the results of public budget forums and meeting s heldsince then. The new budget goes into effecty onJuly 1. Job reductions include 167 vacantg positions and 116 currentlyfilled ones. Another 47 peoplse will take early retirement while others have shifted from full time to part WSU employs morethan 6,200 peoplwe across the state.
The three programs that will be cut are the Departmeng of Theaterand Dance, the Department of Community and Rural Sociology and the major in German. Studentsx who are majoring in those fields will still be able to take courses to finish their but no new students willbe admitted. Presiden Elson Floyd, Provost Warwick Bayly, deans, chancellords and vice presidents are contributing 5 percenyt of theirbase salaries, or a total of about to a special fund that has allowesd WSU to save some jobs.
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