ABAC budget expects to worsen before it gets better
Joseph Smith
Issue date: 1/26/10 Section: News
"We think we have managed everything such that it won't be very bad," Clemens said. "In fact, we may have managed it well enough that there will be very little impact. But, we never know until the numbers are finally put in front of us."
Several faculty and staff members have recently retired, and ABAC is doing what it can to fill the positions that it absolutely needs to function.
"There are some individuals that have retired that we can't do without," Clemens said, "Some of those positions directly affect the education process, research, or the grant producing processes."
Clemens hopes to diminish the negative effects of not having these positions filled without actually filling them, "because of no funds to fill them."
Both Clemens and Bridges expect the decrease in budget to get worse before it gets better.
"All indications are that the South lags far behind the North as far as the [economic] impact," Clemens said. "It seems like the economic downturn hit the North first, and they're starting to come back. The South is starting to lag behind, so we'll probably lag behind the recovery as well…I'm hoping we're at or near the bottom of the economic downturn."
Clemens expects the low budget slum to continue through this year and part of next year.
Several details involving the budget are still unknown at this point, so no definitive outcome can be predicted. We will follow up on this story as more details arise.
Several faculty and staff members have recently retired, and ABAC is doing what it can to fill the positions that it absolutely needs to function.
"There are some individuals that have retired that we can't do without," Clemens said, "Some of those positions directly affect the education process, research, or the grant producing processes."
Clemens hopes to diminish the negative effects of not having these positions filled without actually filling them, "because of no funds to fill them."
Both Clemens and Bridges expect the decrease in budget to get worse before it gets better.
"All indications are that the South lags far behind the North as far as the [economic] impact," Clemens said. "It seems like the economic downturn hit the North first, and they're starting to come back. The South is starting to lag behind, so we'll probably lag behind the recovery as well…I'm hoping we're at or near the bottom of the economic downturn."
Clemens expects the low budget slum to continue through this year and part of next year.
Several details involving the budget are still unknown at this point, so no definitive outcome can be predicted. We will follow up on this story as more details arise.
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