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发信人: gjq (who am i?), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: 伯克里大学也顶不住了 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 17 13:26:22 2009, 美东)
发信人: vickistorm (vickistorm), 信区: Military
标 题: 伯克里大学也顶不住了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 17 08:47:47 2009, 美东)
Dear Campus Colleagues:
As you are undoubtedly aware, California's financial crisis has worsened
severely in recent weeks; this means that the likelihood of unprecedented
cuts in State funding of the University has risen dramatically. UC Berkeley
is facing the most difficult financial situation that we have ever
encountered in our university careers.
We know that you have been hearing rumors about a number of potential
actions designed to reduce costs not only at Berkeley but across the system.
We want to lay out the financial context for you, tell you what we think
may happen, and let you know our leadership strategy for the Berkeley campus
as we manage through these difficult times.
Today, we find ourselves facing stark new realities.
Six weeks ago, UC Berkeley faced a $67.2 million budget gap for 2009-10.
That anticipated shortfall has now grown to $145 million. Here is how we
have been working to address the anticipated shortfall.
* The recently-enacted 9.3% student fee increases and other revenue-
enhancement measures that become effective July 1, have reduced the $145
million gap by $30 million.
* In addition, through the work of many of you, our cost-saving measures
introduced in 2008-2009 have further reduced the gap by another $15 million.
* That leaves us, at present, with a $100 million remaining gap for the
academic year 2009-2010. We are hopeful that this gap will not grow further
as the State finalizes its budget, but we must assume that this is our
working target as we plan for the coming year.
* The possible loss of the Cal Grants program, as proposed by the Governor,
is not included in the above totals. These grants total $47 million
annually to the UC Berkeley campus. They cover fees for a large number of
our undergraduates. The loss of Cal Grants would not only disadvantage
those students; it would fundamentally subvert our social imperative to
provide broad social access to the excellence at UC Berkeley. The Joint
Legislative Budget Conference Committee has proposed protecting student
awards for 2009-2010 grants, but that is not 100 percent certain.
* Federal stimulus funds are beginning to trickle in, but are not designed
to cover existing core operations.
UC Berkeley, of course, is not alone in facing these challenges. Private
universities have suffered major declines in their endowments while public
universities nationwide have experienced severe cuts in State support.
This basically means that we are now facing a reduction of our baseline
budget that will likely continue, and may even deepen, over multiple years.
These unprecedented developments require us to examine the underlying
assumptions that guide us in delivering and supporting the University's
mission of teaching and learning, research and scholarship, and public
service.
For UC Berkeley, this much is certain: all of us---students, faculty, staff,
and senior administrators---will be required to sacrifice as we navigate
our way through this crisis. At the same time, it is essential that we work
together to address the formidable challenges ahead of us.
Our budget planning scenarios, which had earlier anticipated an average of 8
% permanent budget cuts to all campus units for the coming fiscal year, will
now likely be at a campus-wide average of 20%. While some units will need
to spread the cuts over two years, the campus average cut must be at least
12% in 2009-2010. The remainder must be taken by 2010-2011.
These cuts will not be uniform "across-the-board"; units that are core to
the teaching and research missions will be given somewhat lesser cuts than
the others, and, within the teaching-and-research realms, units with higher
capacity will be asked to take larger cuts than those with lower capacity.
This is the only rational approach in a campus like ours if we are to
preserve our depth and breadth of academic excellence---our principal
competitive advantage.
Clearly cuts of this magnitude will require all areas of our campus to
sacrifice considerably, and to make changes in their core operations. We
will need to reduce our workforce significantly and this will be painful and
difficult. To accomplish this, we will also need to make changes to our
core operations and the way we do our work. All of these efforts will take
time to achieve.
Over the summer, managers will work with their units to make difficult but
necessary decisions about reductions in our workforce, while determining
which services we can eliminate or curtail. Naturally, all policies and
procedures will be followed, and we will work to treat our people with the
respect and dignity they deserve under these very difficult circumstances.
We are sensitive to the impact of staffing reductions on the workload of
remaining staff and are seeking ways to streamline our business processes.
As each unit or department works to meet our new budget number, many
specifics remain unclear, requiring approval by the Office of the President
and the Regents for system-wide implementation. We would like to inform you
of those things that are likely or certain to occur in 2009-2010.
What We Know for Sure
* It is, unfortunately, certain that, during 2009-2010, efforts to implement
permanent budget cuts at all UC campuses will result in the elimination of
many staff positions.
* It is certain that, during 2009-2010, there will be a near-total freeze in
new faculty hiring at UC Berkeley.
* It is certain that, during 2009-2010, a staff hiring freeze at UC Berkeley
will remain in effect.
* It is also certain that there will be no faculty or staff early-retirement
programs at UC campuses on the order of the VERIP of the 1990s.
What is Likely to Happen
* It is highly likely that, through temporary furloughs and/or pay cuts,
faculty, staff, and senior administrators at all UC campuses will see their
wages reduced by about 8 percent (with potentially a lower rate for our
lowest paid workers); it remains uncertain whether pension calculations will
be affected by this reduction.
* It is highly likely that, at some point during the 2009-2010 academic year
, faculty, staff, and senior administrators at all UC campuses will begin
contributing to the UC pension fund.
* It is quite possible that the health-care premiums paid by faculty, staff,
and senior administrators at all UC campuses will increase significantly.
Our first and foremost goal is to preserve the academic excellence of
Berkeley. To that end, let us be clear as to what we will not entertain
during this crisis.
* We are not discussing or considering layoffs of Senate faculty members,
tenured or untenured.
* We are not discussing or considering making Senate faculty promotion
decisions contingent on available funding.
* We will not sacrifice Berkeley's commitment to breadth and depth of
academic excellence.
* We will not allow the budgetary crisis to subvert either the delivery of
our teaching mission or the support infrastructure for research.
* We will not sacrifice our commitment to social access: low-income students
who have earned a place at Berkeley must be capable of affording a UC
Berkeley education.
* We will not flag in our commitment to recruit to Berkeley the best
graduate students in all fields.
* We will not abandon our efforts to train and promote a highly skilled and
diverse workforce.
These are the guiding principles that will be in the forefront of our
activities as we entertain difficult choices.
As we progress through this budgetary crisis, we are also looking forward to
the longer term prospects and we are taking measures to reduce the size and
cost of our enterprise by streamlining work. For example, we have begun
implementing a multi-year plan to streamline administrative processes in IT,
Human Resources, procurement, business services, student advising, research
administration, and other areas. Many of these improvements will involve
centralized and automated systems that will reduce our dependence on a
patchwork of decentralized, labor-intensive operations.
Over time, a combination of layoffs, retirements and normal attrition will
result in a smaller workforce that will bring our staff and faculty payroll
closer to alignment with State funding, while maintaining high-quality
services. Toward these ends, we have already made substantial investments
in systems such as the Human Capital Management (HCM) systems, the Berkeley
Financial System (BFS), and an upgrade to ePro, our procurement system.
We are also working with the Office of the President on ways to cut costs by
adopting system-wide (UC) administrative systems and reducing prices
through system-wide procurement of some goods and services. Locally, we are
consolidating the administration of contracts and grants and are merging
back-office functions of both academic and non-academic units.
We are actively engaged and working closely with the Academic Senate and a
faculty subgroup that has been formed specifically to examine budget
reduction measures. We anticipate evaluating all options around hiring,
retention practices, and strategies to defend the breadth and depth of
academic excellence for which UC Berkeley is renowned.
We are implementing an entire suite of revenue-enhancement measures: full
recovery of the central administrative costs associated with our self-
sufficient auxiliary enterprises; negotiation of a higher federal overhead
rate for campus research; expansion of the reach and earnings potential of
University Extension and Summer Sessions; and, of course, intensified
private fund-raising. We are also restructuring campus debt to reduce those
costs over the near term.
In the external realm, University leaders are advocating aggressively,
making sure that legislators, the public, and UC's closest constituents
understand the value of our mission, employees, and students.
We pledge to redouble our efforts to strengthen UC Berkeley's long and rich
tradition of combining access and excellence. Throughout the State, country
, and even the world, Berkeley remains the standard by which all other
universities are judged when it comes to the combination of comprehensive
academic excellence and deep commitment to a public mission. We will not
shy away from our commitment to either of these lofty goals.
Through shared sacrifice by students, staff, faculty, and senior
administrators, and through renewed efforts to reduce over time the cost of
delivering instruction, research, and administrative services on campus, we
will emerge from this crisis more focused and more efficient, but equally
excellent and accessible. UC Berkeley has been an outstanding institution
for 141 years and it will still be outstanding 141 years from now. We look
forward to working with you toward these ends.
What happens next?
We are acutely aware that the economic situation makes this a difficult time
, professionally and personally, for many of you. Change of this magnitude
will be difficult. We have asked our Human Resources area to assist in a
number of ways, specifically by supporting managers and employees as we work
through this difficult time. We understand that clear information on
campus actions and resources to help you is essential. We ask that managers
and supervisors please take time to go though this message with your
employees. We renew our commitment to bring you that information as we
learn it, via e-mails and on our Budget Central website: newscenter.berkeley
.edu/budget. We hope that you will watch the site for budget news as it
develops, and we thank you for your continued commitment and dedication to
this unique institution.
Yours sincerely,
Robert J. Birgeneau
Chancellor
George W. Breslauer
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Note: We ask supervisors to please print and deliver this message to staff
who do not use computers in their work. | i******l
发帖数: 828 | 2 让他们不录取我老。 活该！！ 咔咔 （继续酸葡萄） | H**********g
发帖数: 1312 | 3 老大申的哪个program？
【在 i******l 的大作中提到】
: 让他们不录取我老。 活该！！ 咔咔 （继续酸葡萄）
| g*s
发帖数: 2277 | 4 MFE?
【在 H**********g 的大作中提到】
: 老大申的哪个program？
| i******l
发帖数: 828 | 5 不是。吸吸
【在 g*s 的大作中提到】
: MFE?
| H**********g
发帖数: 1312 | 6 MBA? 呵呵
【在 i******l 的大作中提到】
: 不是。吸吸
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