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A sign posted by students is displayed outside a regents meeting at the College of Southern Nevada, Charleston campus Thursday, March 3, 2010.
Friday, April 16, 2010 | 11:51 a.m.
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Cutting 6.9 percent from the College of Southern Nevada’s operating budget will force a de facto enrollment cap and jeopardize the institution’s “open access” mission.
CSN President Michael Richards delivered that grim message to the Board of Regents at today's meeting to review budget reduction plans by the state’s eight higher education campuses.
CSN intends to implement across-the-board cuts of nearly $2 million from this year’s operating budget and $5.7 million for the 2011 fiscal year.
Richards told the regents he’s put a “measured growth” policy into place, limiting expansion of high-demand academic programs and turning away qualified students. That’s contrary to what community colleges are supposed to be about, Richards said. And it’s a particularly bitter pill to swallow given that CSN’s enrollment is up 6.7 percent over last year.
Nathaniel Waugh, CSN’s student body president, praised Richards for fully involving the entire campus community in the budget reduction process. There were numerous opportunities for public input, as well as frequent town hall meetings to keep people up to date on developments, Waugh said.
“We’ve been able to find a way to make the necessary cuts without drastically affecting students’ access to education,” Waugh said. “The services they need, like counseling and tutoring, are still there.”
Mark Rauls, CSN’s Faculty Senate chair, told the regents that his colleagues “played a central role” in developing the criteria for the cuts, and thanked Richards for “letting the faculty know they had a voice.”
CSN will offer buyouts to some faculty as a cost-savings measure, although the cost savings won’t be realized immediately. That will require greater reliance on part-time and adjunct faculty.
The regents are holding a special meeting today at the Desert Research Institute to hear and approve budget reduction plans for CSN, Nevada State College, Great Basin College, Truckee Meadows Community College and Western Nevada College.
While the presidents of UNLV and UNR are also providing updates today on their proposed budget cuts, approval of those plans won’t happen until the regents meet in June.
Given the greater complexity of the budget cuts at the state’s universities, which will likely include the elimination of entire programs and departments, more time is needed to complete the process, said system Chancellor Dan Klaich.
UNLV has already cut $44 million from its budget since 2007. President Neal Smatresk said he plans to use $3 million in reserves to cover the remainder of this year’s required cut, and trim another $10.6 million through June 2011. Of those reductions, $5.6 million will be in administration and $4 million from academic programs. A faculty committee is reviewing programs already identified as being at risk of elimination – including gerontology, women’s studies and landscape architecture – and will make its recommendations to Smatresk for consideration.
There are tough choices ahead, Smatresk told the Sun this morning, adding: “I’m just about determined that the St. Bernard is not coming … I don’t see a rescue on the horizon.”
hmmm...too bad liberals don't understand that the 44% we spent for "wars" gives us the freedom spend the other 56%.
we could always NOT spend that "war" money and go to a taliban style education system, right?
And that 44% saved countless women and children from murder by the hand of a brutal dictator. As a veteran of Desert Storm, I personally witnessed the tears of joy when that murderous b.a.s.t.a.r.d. was taken down.
It's only a bonus knowing that some liberal 18 yo panties are all in a wad because he or she won't be able to take some political science class in the 13th grade (aka CSN) due to budget reductions.
What's REALLY too bad is the 'educational professionals' that taught the sign maker where to look up the numbers. Not even close.
3.1 Trillion (3100 Billion)budget for 2009- of which $1630 billion went to our entitlement programs (Social Security/Medicare/MedicAid/Unemployment/Welfare).
$260 billion went to service the monstrous National Debt.
$660 billion was allocated for the defense budget and the 'War on Terror'. The remaining $600 billion or so went to everything else.
Now, I'm certainly no math wizard by any stretch of the imagination, but 44% of 3100 (ostensibly for the WAR and the evil DEFENSE budgets) equals $1364 billion or so on my calculator.$660 billion equals less than half that percentage (around 21%).
Neat picture though...Nice job to the Sun editor that let this get through to publication.
There is some special math going into that poster. Military spending is a lot of money but total welfare expenditures are more than double the entire military budget. Looks like Rowdy Yates already covered that.
I'm not sure why interest on debt is in red. Was the creator of the sign trying to say that item is overspent on? Sounds like education in this state is a lost cause. No sense in putting more money into a failed system.
First, if you all would read the chart before jumping to conclusions, you'd see that there is a citation to a website (globalissues.org) where these values can be found. Note that the sign also states that these figures are the "Allocation of 2009 Taxes", not the entire US budget.
Second, this is an article regarding higher education - has anyone attacked the military in the picture or in this article? The chart simply shows that very little of our tax money is allocated to education.
Finally, before you all decide to attack students at CSN or any of our NV institutions, think about who trains your nurses, dental hygeinists, emergency medical techs and teachers, etc.
Compare the ENTIRE Nevada Deficit to the 2009 Wall Street Bonuses (from recent news):
JPMorgan Chase & Co $9.3 billion
Bank of America $4 billion
Goldman Sachs (GS) $16.2 billion
".(Goldman made only $13.4 billion in profits, $2.8 billion less than bonuses paid - i.e. they paid no taxes to the Government)
TOTAL $29.5 billion for 2009
The entire NEVADA STATE SHORTFALL is only $0.9 billion, or 3% of those bonuses.
A 3% tax on the top three Wall Street Bonus Packages would PAY THE ENTIRE NEVADA STATE SHORTFALL.
THERE IS PLENTY OF MONEY IN AMERICA - BUT THE BULK OF IT GOES TO EXECUTIVES AND CONSERVATIVES PLAN TO CUT BACK ON SCHOOLS, ROADS HEALTH CARE AND RETIREMENT TO PAY EXECUTIVE BONUSES.
Tea Party Dudes - WHERE ARE YOU??? SPEAK UP PLEASE.
There is plenty of money in America for Executives, it's just that the public, who pays these bonuses after being robbed is standing over the wrong Trough.
You have got to stand over the PIGGY TROUGH AND drive a BIG BUS RV to get paid.
What happened to all the "MILLIONS" ($7.6 to be exact) CSN was supposed to save by firing the IT Department in 2006.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2...
The IT budget for CCSN went from 4.6 million before outsourcing to 5.3 million after outsourcing. So, according to COLLEGIS, spending more allows you save millions over 7 years. Also, please note; $1.2 million of the IT budget before outsourcing was taken away from IT and magically siphoned to various projects (BOB GILBERT can tell you where it went) so the IT budget was actually 3.4 million during the final year. CSN paid Collegis over 8 MILLION the first year due to unforeseen consultant fees and continues to feed them; I'm sure that wasn't published anywhere. It would be great to see our 7.6 million dollar savings come to fruition. Any comments?
The Attorney General (AG) should examine how much money has really been spent (not saved) by the COLLEGIS IT Outsourcing and track down the former CSN Administrators & Regents who personally profited from this merger. The AG owes this to the State of Nevada, the students & faculty of CSN and the former IT employees who lost their careers in 2006 to the Florida based company Sungard Collegis.
Let's not get your hair in a tussle Sparky, Sungard promised us millions in savings and I'm just asking where the money is.
BobLoblaw:
After grabbing a magnifying glass I saw what you were talking about at the bottom of the poster.
I wouldn't have put that in bold or colored it red either if I was the author of the poster.
The globalissues.org isn't the original author of the numbers posited either.
That comes from someplace called the 'Friends Committe on National Legislation'. Research on THAT turns out to be an arm of the Quakers. Gee, no hidden agenda there?
Again, what sort of squirrelly research methods are you guys teaching these 18-25 year olds that know nothing other than they want an 'A' from their instructor?
CSN now has 2 lawyers understand they went 25 years with none ....these two Bozos work part time and as staff says they hide 32 hours a week.. let one of them go ...save 250K .... Mike Richards needs to act instead of re acting or he can go as well..The regents need to quit hiding behind Rogers and his cronies ...and do what they were elected to do...The only one with enough history of the place is Alden if it wasn't for his cancer this would be done already !
If you want to fix the education problems in Nevada, then, if you are a Democrat, DO NOT VOTE for Rory Reid for Governor in the primary.
And for sure DO NOTE VOTE for any incumbant Regent in the upcoming primary.
Vote for Fred Conquest for Governor.
I am running for Governor and one of the main reasons I choose to run is to make education in Nevada WORLD CLASS.
Step ONE: Get rid of the clowns running the system. Get new people and make the new people accountable for their decisions.
Eucation is not a country club for cronies and clowns, even if they are funny.
Step TWO: Prevent the inmates from running the asylum. The State and NSHE tells the schools and the administrators what to do, not the other way around. No tails wagging the dog. It's here's the mission, get it done or go somewhere else.
Step THREE: If the old guard do not like it, too bad. Quit and move to California.
Fred Conquest
Democratic Candidate for Governor
www.fredconquest.com