UNBC Launches Website To Explain 2007-08 Budget
-- photo courtesy of UNBC
The first major jobs cuts at the University of Northern B.C. since the facility fully opened its doors back in 1994 were announced yesterday -- 25 faculty and 25 non-faculty positions will be lost to balance the 2007-08 budget and stave off future deficits.
Some of the non-faculty positions will be lost immediately, while the faculty cuts are to be phased in over three years to lessen the impact.
Details of UNBC’s budget constraints and what the post-secondary institute’s plans are to rectify the situation are outlined on a new website set up in light of yesterday’s announcement.
The website is linked to the University’s main site at http://www.unbc.ca/, its direct address is: www.unbc.ca/budget/index.html.
The site also provides an opportunity for feedback.
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With the level of mismangment in the colleges, the current situation was long expected. The mismanagment has reached the stage that people refer to CSAM [college] as college of science and Mis-managment. The VP academic [Dr Brunt] was warned about the situation by 1/3 of college to not renew the contract of the Dean of CSAM and to hire a new Dean, but Dr Brunt decided to ignore the collective wisdom and renewed his contract in 2005. Those letters should be still on file. Under the mandate of [CSAM] Dean McGill the enrolment numbers have stopped their positive trend in CSAM.
The only solution to budget problems is to realize the source of the problem and hire a new dean who can increase the number of enrolments by keeping the faculty satisfied and motivated. The very high number of grievances against Dean McGill over the past 3 years is a clear indication of the dramatic situation in the CSAM college. It is time for Dr Cozzetto to look at his performance and put an end to the dilema. Those grievances and declining enrolments are evidence for his poor performance which is endangering the future of the university.
I won't be surprised if the enrolments follow a negative trend next year if he is kept in office, the majority of the faculties in CSAM are fed up with his discriminations and mismanagment and these are also fully documented in the grievances against him.
The dissatisfaction has even reached the students and some of the students wanted to meet the UNBC president last semester and raise their concerns about the replacment of their experienced professors by faculty with no teaching experience or not even PhD.
Best regards
Goran Nowicki