<p>One of the downsides of attending a public university - you are at the whim of the state legislature.</p>
<p>From The Chronicle of Higher Education:</p>
<p>"Gov. Timothy M. Kaine of Virginia is asking three leading public universities to cut 7.5 percent from their state-appropriated budgets in order to deal with a projected $641-million revenue shortfall, according to The Daily Progress, a newspaper in Charlottesville, Va. The governor, a Democrat, has asked nearly all state agencies to cut their budgets by 5 percent, but bigger cutbacks will be expected at the College of William & Mary, the University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech. For UVa, the cuts would amount to more than $11.5-million. The governor has requested plans for the cuts by September 10. JJ Hermes"</p>
<p><a href="http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=2967%5B/url%5D">http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=2967</a></p>