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To address the ongoing budget crisis, the university has instituted a number of systemwide and campuswide cost-saving measures designed to protect academic programs and student services as much as possible.
On a systemwide level, UC has frozen senior manager salaries, including those of the president and chancellors, and has cancelled bonuses for all senior managers and non-senior managers who earn more than $100,000.
The UC Office of the President is reducing its budget by $67 million and the total full-time-equivalent staff by 628 since the beginning of the UCOP restructuring in 2007-08. That includes $25 million in unrestricted central administration funds that can be passed on to the campuses for teaching and research purposes.
The magnitude of the budget shortfall has forced UC's 10 campuses to institute a range of cost-reducing efficiencies and staffing measures.
Consolidation of IT services, energy-efficiency programs and cutbacks in travel are among the money-saving measures campuses are using.
All campuses have some form of staff hiring freeze in place, and some have instituted layoffs or staff reductions through attrition and retirement. All campuses have cut back on the recruitment of new faculty.
President Yudof has asked UCOP staff to review UC policies, and if needed propose new ones, governing the use of employee furloughs. No decisions have been made on whether a furlough program would be initiated. Consultation with faculty and employee groups will take place before that strategy would be deployed.
At their March meeting, UC Regents received an update of what each campus is doing to deal with the budget crisis.
Read each campus report:
UC Berkeley, UC Davis and UC Irvine
UCLA, UC Merced and UC Riverside
UC San Diego, UC San Francisco, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz