Athletics, administration, academic programs — everything’s on the table.

Or is it? At yesterday’s 3PM Senate meeting Provost Coltrane said all units would be asked to plan for a 2% cut, even athletics. At the 1:30PM IAC meeting AAD for Finance Eric Roedl said that President Schill had not asked athletics to make a cut.

Meanwhile the headline above is from UC-Berkeley. Their admistration is working with their Senate to make cuts, as explained in InsideHigherEd, here:

That prognosis had one caveat: that Berkeley continue its strong tradition of shared governance. [University Senate President and Economics Professor Benjamin Hermalin] said he’d been relatively pleased with the level of administrative collaboration and disclosure thus far, and said that must continue in order for the process to succeed.

“Faculty will not accept a top-down solution, and faculty not accepting it will make it impossible to implement,” he said. “That’s not a threat, it’s just the way we work here. And I think everyone understands that, whether they’re an assistant professor or the chancellor.”

Here at UO, we’ve had much more transparency from President Schill than in the past. But no engagement with the Senate about budgeting and academic priorities. And getting basic budget info still requires public records requests:

MOUs Provost, Deans