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From: James West <jdwest@u.washington.edu>
To: Rosa-Maria Cormanick <rcormani@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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The UW hasn't gone through the official procedure of declaring a financial
emergency - that is a MUCH noisier, more formal and more public process,
which would invoke media attention, and faculty reaction, out of all
proportion to the whimper that is accompanying the present round of cuts. 
It's only happened one time in the university's history, and the present 
exercise is clearly an attempt to do as much as possible without 
formally declaring an emergency. Aside from other considerations, I would 
wager my last quarter that one factor dissuading the administration this 
time is that it would be impossible to recruit a new president into a 
financial emergency situation.

On Thu, 2 Mar 1995, Rosa-Maria Cormanick wrote:

> To expand to Prof. West's information on how a "university/system's financial
> emergency" could/should/may be implemented, you may want to read Tues. Feb. 28,
> 1995 NY Times, pg. A9 article: "New York Professors, Fearing Worst, Rush Out
> Their Resumes".    What this article talks about is that on 2/27/95 the Board
> of Trustees of the City University of New York (CUNY) MET & DECLARED a
> financial emergency for the city system's senior colleges - 6 two-yr colleges.
> 
> To me it does not seem that UWA has gone through the same legal steps of
> declaring financial emergency as CUNY -- yet, I may be wrong if these steps are 
> different from state to state...
> 
> IN ANY CASE CONTINUE ON!!!  A LOT OF US ARE TOTALLY BEHIND YOU!
> 
> rmcormanick
> Slavic, OSU
> 

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