<p>Business Channel just news flashed that UC is proposing letting tens of thousands of workers go in the UC system. Reflects lack of money coming from the state under the current budget crisis. Anybody hearing anything for their specific campus? Does it mean bigger class size, class limitation, less resources, and the four-year degree will now take four and a half or five years to complete? I mean if you lose people teaching certain classes that could be a problem.</p>
<p>I know UCLA is considering purging some of its less popular majors. Therefore it won’t really affect most people if they get rid of “Scandinavian Studies” or “Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations” yet UCLA will save quite a bit of money by not having to pay all those professors to teach all those classes and all the other costs associated with those extra classes.</p>
<p>TENS of thousands?! You bet we’ll have huge classes…</p>
<p>This is even more depressing than the mob of UCSD professors proposing to get rid of UCR UCM and UCSC.</p>
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<p>I’m pretty sure it’s just furlough days, not lay offs. Either way though, not all workers are instructors.</p>
<p>About UCLA Professors-</p>
<p>I believe UCLA professors are taking an 8% pay cut, with the higher salaried professors “encouraged” to take a 10-12% pay cut. This will have long term consequences. When the private universities are feeling richer 2 years from now, we will see a huge flow of talented academics moving away from the California sunshine towards safer harbors. UCLA Economics Professor Matthew Kahn writes that he is “worried about gross flows. A faculty can grow if exits decline or if new faculty sign on. At UCLA, we will see more faculty leaving to go to private universities and few private university faculty being willing in the future to take the gamble of moving to UCLA. The President of the UC is creating a dangerous precedent and recruiting will suffer for a decade.”</p>
<p>I don’t think you have to be worried about going beyond a four-year stint, though (with the exception of a few majors). You probably would be forced to be less selective with your classes. For example, when there weren’t any classes for my major that interested me (or the professors were subpar, which was quite common), I would choose to try my luck and defer taking departmental classes until the next quarter. With less classes offered and certain classes offered less frequently, you may not have the same luxury.</p>
<p>Thiscouldbeheaven is right- they’re not laying off or firing tens of thousands of employees (that would just shut the universities down…)</p>
<p>here’s an article
[University</a> of California chief proposes tens of thousands of employee furloughs to cut costs - OrlandoSentinel.com](<a href=“http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-california-university-cuts,0,4768653.story]University”>http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-california-university-cuts,0,4768653.story)</p>
<p>thanks for the article and clarification. As I said, I just heard the newsflash on CNBC, they didn’t go into any detail.</p>