<p>Welcome to the world of politics. You have Chancellors playing politics on one side, being as slippery and vague as they can be about future cuts. Then, you have faculty on the other side, being political and raising the spector of impending doom (which is, I suspect, what DougBetsy was hearing at Towson). The loser, as is the case with most political issues, is truth and the average joe who just wants to figure out what this means to him.</p>
<p>The larger the school, the harder it is to even wrap your arms around the budget issues. The shear size and complexity of the institutions, with dozens of operating units, provides fertile ground for obfuscation. You just have to approach it from multiple sources and see what you can uncover.</p>