<p>Do all schools list them like this? Pretty informative</p>
<p>interesting… I don’t think my school does that, but the state (VA) is cutting more and more money from higher education each year. W&M is down to getting ~15% of its operating budget from the state, and UVA is under 10%, I believe.</p>
<p>Wow…</p>
<p>The University of Alabama’s president said that UA’s plan is to only cut back on some landscaping improvements (no big deal), and that UA is still going forward with Phase III of their new award-winning Engineering and Science Complex. </p>
<p>I think the fact that they’re still hiring faculty is a good sign.</p>
<p>A lot of the stuff they are cutting seems redundant to what they already have. Reading through the list, one gets the feeling they could cut a lot more.</p>
<p>I think that ASU has carefully chosen to prune less popular programs (with the inexplicable exception of nursing) and consolidate locations and departments; something which would have been politically difficult to accomplish had their not been a financial crisis. </p>
<p>D is a freshman this year at ASU Tempe – her classes have respectively 19, 20, 14, 25, 150 students and there was not much problem in getting the classes she wanted even after AP results came out in July necessitating major rework of her schedule. </p>
<p>While budget cuts are always painful, my guess is that this particular round has allowed ASU to trim administrative costs significantly, and that they have been very good about making sure that high demand undergraduate courses still have plenty of availability so that students can graduate on time. That seems to be very different than the approach taken by many of the CSU campuses.</p>