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INSIDE IOWA STATE
April 19, 2002
ISU to cut $15 million
Geoffroy accepts task force budget recommendations
by University Relations staff
President Gregory Geoffroy has accepted all the budget-cutting
recommendations of Iowa State's Task Force on Strategic Effectiveness and
Budget Priorities, and directed the vice presidents and provost to begin
implementing them. The recommendations will involve cuts of $15.4 million
from the university's FY03 budget.
"More than six months ago we began preparing for cuts in the university's
budget for next year, in part to accommodate the deappropriations that
occurred over the course of this year. A task force of faculty, staff and
students carefully reviewed budget reductions suggested by our academic and
administrative units and then made recommendations to me," Geoffroy said. "I
have accepted their recommendations, which call for reductions totaling
$15.4 million beginning July 1."
The cuts include the elimination of 132 positions. Another 73 jobs will be
transferred from state appropriations to other sources of funding. The
plans also include:
- Leaving vacant the position of vice president for external affairs.
- Combining the positions of director of minority student affairs and
associate dean of students.
- Reducing several student services.
- Eliminating an associate dean position in the College of Education and
an assistant dean in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
- Eliminating the following programs in the colleges of Education and
Engineering:
- Organizational learning and human resource development Ph.D.
degree (master's degree program suspended indefinitely)
- Community health education B.S. degree
- Athletic training minor
- Health studies minor
- Engineering applications B.S. degree
- Engineering science B.S. degree
- Merging the departments of landscape architecture and community and
regional planning in the College of Design, and the departments of animal
ecology and forestry in the College of Agriculture.
- Reorganizing the biological sciences, which involves departments in the
colleges of Agriculture and Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- Increasing user fees in ISU Extension.
"We have cut courses, cut funding that would support faculty positions,
delayed construction projects, reduced energy consumption and used tuition
revenue that normally would finance student services and program
improvements," Geoffroy said.
"More than 40 percent of the new revenue we brought in this year (fiscal
year 2002) because of higher tuition and enrollment growth had to be used to
offset reduced state appropriations. That's nearly $5.4 million that could
have been invested in academic support for our students," he said.
Iowa State will submit its complete fiscal year 2003 budget later this
spring to the Board of Regents, State of Iowa.
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