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Slides from September 2, 2009 UH Faculty Meeting on Budget (pdf)

September 2, 2009 Minutes (pdf)

Here are some resources/links, as mentioned at the all-faculty meeting of September 2.

External links of interest:

• AAUP recommended policy on financial exigency and retrenchment
• AAUP Q&A on financial problems
• A professor at UCSB has been archiving discussions and documents related to the budget situation at California universities.
• Here is some news on similar activity across the country
• The AAUP issued a statement recently with some eerily similar descriptions and some warnings.
• The UNM Faculty Senate called for an analysis and report on administrative growth and cost at UNM.**
• Here is the report. It has some potentially interesting lessons for us. For example, from page 9 of the report:

  In the Administration Division, 52.4% of the 103.8% increase [from 2002-2007] was due to reorganizations resulting from the Administration Consolidation Initiative.

• Discussion "Google group" set up by 6 UHM faculty to discuss the state of our campus. (Note: not a standing committee of the UHMFS)

Internal links of interest:

• Manoa expenditures broken down, 2008
• Budget workgroup page.
• Prioritization Process workgroup page
• August 12 statement from the Chancellor on the budget.

You are also encouraged to look at the minutes of the faculty Senate from Spring semester 2009, as well as the minutes of the Senate Executive Committee.

**We note for informational purposes that this report does not apply to the time that our current VCAA was at UNM. We have included a link to this report because we think it might serve as a model for something to be done at UH, and should not in any way be construed as a comment on the VCAA.

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