3.1 Goal: Eliminate four interdisciplinary degrees in Mathematics.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Dean Torbert to effect this change for the 1997-98 academic year.
3.2 Goal: Reduce Medical Laboratory Science internship placements at Mary Hitchcock Medical Center.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Dean Ritvo will effect this recommendation during the 1996-97 academic year.
3.3 Goal: Drop Odiorne Point as a site for Recreation Management and Policy student internships.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Dean Ritvo will effect this recommendation during the Spring semester.
3.4 Goal: Reduce support for the Gerontology minor.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Deans Hoskin and Ritvo to effect this recommendation for FY'97.
3.5 Goal: Truncate the MBA Associates program in WSBE.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Dean Goodridge to effect this recommendation for FY'97.
3.6 Goal: Fund the teaching of interdisciplinary programs through established faculty positions and academic departments.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will see to it that instructional budgets are reduced on schedule.
3.7 Goal: Eliminate the plant pathology specialty in Plant Biology.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Dean Mautz to effect this recommendation, working with the Department on curricular changes, for FY'99.
3.8 Goal: Reduce support for computing hardware and software products.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. VP Lubow will direct Assistant VP Olson to conduct this review and propose standard software to the campus this summer. Necessary budget changes will be the responsibility of VP Lubow.
3.9 Goal: Diminish reliance on part-time and temporary faculty in General Education.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Instructional budgets will be reduced accordingly; a decision will be made by Dean Hoskin and Provost Eggers about FY'99 by January 1, 1998.
3.10 Goal: Eliminate the wildlife disease and parasitology specialty in Animal and Nutritional Sciences.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Dean Mautz to reduce permanent salary dollars accordingly in FY'97.
3.11 Goal: Reduce technical support for research in Physics and Engineering.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Dean Torbert to transfer funds for the opening of FY'97.
3.12 Goal: Reduction of Cooperative Extension support.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. VP Sundberg will work with Dean Horne to reduce opening budgets accordingly in FY'97, minimizing the effects of this reduction as much as possible.
3.13 Goal: Reduce graduate faculty support in business.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Dean Goodridge to reduce opening budgets accordingly in FY'98.
3.14 Goal: Reduce support for WSBE research centers.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Dean Goodridge to reduce opening budgets accordingly in FY'97 and FY'98.
3.15 Goal: Reduce Fund 1000 Support of the Research Computing Center, Part 2.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. VP Sundberg will reduce opening budgets accordingly in FY'98.
3.16 Goal: Eliminate the equine physiology and biomechanics concentration in Animal and Nutritional Sciences.
This recommendation is accepted as proposed. Provost Eggers will work with Dean Mautz to reduce opening budgets accordingly in FY'98.
3.17 Goal: Delay FY'96 and FY'97 pay increases for nonunionized personnel to at least mid-year.
This year's staff raise came into effect at mid-year, and any decision about the effective date of staff raises must be negotiated with the trustees. We cannot at this point count on any savings.
3.18 Goal: Reduce permanent salary dollars in academic budgets by returning salary differences, salaries from positions left unfilled, and new projected earnings as necessary, as a "backstop" to the other Planning Council recommendations.
Although this is the last of the Planning Council recommendations presented in priority order, these budget reductions must be accepted, in order for the budget target to be hit. If budgetary flexibility develops, we will protect these dollars. Also, this recommendation stands as a "backstop" to the "Provost's List" of academic program reviews; that is, any budgetary reductions which that list makes possible will be credited against the dollars offered here.