By Cyndy Cole
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday Feb. 7, 2002
Likins calls his previous estimates of 128 UA jobs and classes cut inaccurate
Sixty-nine UA employees were laid off and 115 courses canceled as a result of budget cuts, not the numbers UA President Peter Likins released last week.
Likins said in a campuswide e-mail released yesterday afternoon that the numbers he released at last week's Arizona Board of Regents meeting were inaccurate.
He had said during the meeting that 128 courses and 128 jobs had been cut, a result of a $15.8 million cut in state funding to the university.
Actually, 142 positions were cut, but many of those jobs were vacant when they were eliminated. So far, 54 adjunct faculty members and 15 full-time employees have been laid off or not rehired for this semester, the e-mail stated.
Some of those adjuncts, however, may have decided to go elsewhere this semester, or may have had contracts that expired, said Ed Frisch, assistant vice president for research planning and management.
Statistics on classes and jobs cut are not final yet - neither are job cuts.
"We still have information coming in," Frisch said. "Those numbers could change, and I fully expect them to."
Administrators are still deliberating over where to cut $1.8 million from the UA's billion-dollar yearly budget.