From charlo@u.washington.edu Tue Apr 18 11:24:44 PDT 1995 >From charlo@u.washington.edu Tue Apr 18 11:24:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from homer05.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA09651; Tue, 18 Apr 95 11:24:44 -0700 Received: by homer05.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA60026; Tue, 18 Apr 95 11:24:43 -0700 X-Sender: charlo@homer05.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 11:24:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Charlotte Wallace To: slavic-uw@u.washington.edu Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Cuts In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Jeanne, Since when are they firing two office staff? I heard they were firing only one. Charlotte Wallace Slavic Department, DP-32 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-6848 On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, Jeanne Farrow wrote: > If these people can go to such lengths and employ such 'creative > accounting' merely to pay lip service to budget cuts, there can be no > doubt that they could have employed that creativity to accomplish these > ends without dismembering the entire Slavic Department while actually > firing only two office staff. A logical conclusion is that, for whatever > reason, our elimination was indeed a priority all along. > > I am concerned that, because of the dishonesty that seems to be evident > throughout this entire difficult process, we graduate and undergraduate > Slavic majors will be unable to count on verbal reassurances that those of > us in programs at the present will be 'grandfathered' in and allowed to > complete our degrees. Will a written guarantee be forthcoming? > > Jeanne Farrow > Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literature > > On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, Karl Kramer wrote: > > > I met with both Dunn and Simpson today and learned the following > > details regarding budget cuts. The state of Washington has a somewhat > > strange way of doing business. By taking 4 positions out of Slavic, they > > have eliminated 4 permanent positions in the college of arts & sciences. > > The 4 actual bodies which fill those positions will all be tenured > > faculty, thus they will not lose their jobs. They will be paid out of tempo- > > rary funds. This means they are not paid through state allocations, but > > rather through other funds the uw has at its disposal. Simpson named a > > number of them; one, I recall, is timber sales. This is how they "cut" > > $670,000 out of the Slavic Dept. budget. In fact, they're still paying > > those 4 people, but it's not out of state-allocated funds. > > Simpson claims, and at this point I believe him, that he is still > > under an order from higher up to cut x-number of dollars from his budget. > > For bookkeeping purposes this is what he has done. Why is he still under > > orders to bring his budget down by that amount of money? They gave me > > data from Senate Ways and Means Committee to prove it. This all applies > > to the 1995-97 biennium and reads in part "The 1994 supplemental budget > > bill directed all high education institutions to prepare for reductions > > of 2.4 percent at the 4-year insitutions . . . to support salary > > increases during the 1995-97 biennium. The Senate budget assumes that the > > reductions will fund $39 million of the $89 nmillion cost of the 5 > > percent higher education salary increase which begins on July 1, 1995." > > Make of that what you will. > > > > .