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Behrend Copes
With Budget
Loretta Russ
The Collegian
Due to state cuts in
university funding, all divisions
of the Penn State system have
been required to return a
designated percent of their total
funds to the University.
This semester a budget cut
of three percent has already been
implemented into Behrend's
permanent budget.
This equals approximately
335 thousand dollars of
Behrend's funds.
One of the ways in which
Behrend had to accommodate the
cut was the cancellation of
Behrend's nationally recognized
Speaker Series. That's only one
of the setbacks being felt by the
Behrend community as a result
of the cuts.
The college is also facing
the increasing possibility of an
upcoming ten percent budget cut
in the next year.
University Park has created
the University Future
Committee to evaluate potential
program cuts.
A Future Committee has
also been established at Behrend,
consisting of faculty, staff, and
students.
Its purpose is to assess the
effects of possible cuts on
Behrend's community.
The Future Committee will
submit its suggestions to the
University Future Committee,
who will then submit their
overall plan to Joab Thomas,
president of the University.
If a ten percent budget cut
was implemented at Behrend it
would total 1.1 million dollars.
"We are running on a very
tight budget," said John Burke,
assistant provost and associate
senior dean. "We have no
excess of funds and through this
strategic planning process will
show that to the University.”
Chris Reber, said. "Behrend
has been historicajlly under
funded and these tuts would
cause very damaging effects to
the college.”
Last Friday, members of
both committees were present
on campus to hold an
informational meeting for
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faculty, staff and students.
Approximately two hundred
people attended last Fridays
meeting to voice their concerns.
Presently, the ten percent
cut is only tentative.
However, the Future
Committee is putting together
plans in the event the cuts are
required.
John Burke said, "We've
been moving forward, rapidly
developing and putting together
plans for the budget cutting
process.”
"This is essentially a cut
and enhance process," Burke
said. "Although it is a tough
process the University will see
savings."
Each unit of the college is
required to submit a plan with
up to ten percent of its
permanent operating budget cut
Reber said, "We're entering
into a period of planning where
the cuts to the budget will
eliminate wastes in weak areas
without harming' more vital
ones.”
"The effect of this process
will help us in the long run,"
said Burke. "We will become
more efficient”
The Future Committees
purpose is to recommend
scenarios that will be the least
harmful to the Behrend
community.
According to Reber,
Behrend is the most thinly
staffed unit of the University. It
also has the highest rate of
classroom utilization.
"These plans should
demonstrate (to the University
Future Committee) why
Behrend's budget should not be
cut,” said Reber.
"Behrend college is one of
the most successful units (of the
University)," said Reber. "We
should be in the position for
enhancement rather than cuts."
Burke explained, that even
with the planned cuts the
University does not want to cut
enrollment.
Reber said, "Cutting
enrollment would lower income
and that would defeat the
purpose."
Behrend has the lowest
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The Collegian
Day care facilities will
finally be available to Behrend
in the Fall of 1993.
According to Dean of
Student Affairs, Chris Reber,
the Board of Trustees approved
the purchase of the Tupperware
Building on Station Road to be
used as a university day-run day
care center.
The University and the
present owners of the
Tupperware building reached a
purchase agreement in July.
The agreement states that certain
specifications must be met
before the purchase may be
finalized.
The purchase of the
building has yet to be finalized,
however, Reber says they are
expecting no problems with the
final plans.
"Under this agreement, the
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University will assume
ownership in January 1993,
Tupperware will vacate the
building around April 1993,"
said Reber, "immediately after
that the building will be
renovated for a Fall 1993
opening of the child care
center."
Funds to cover the
purchase the Tupperware
building and cover the intital
costs of the center will be
provided through a loan from
the University.
Reber says that after the
opening of the center, "it's
going to operate on a self
supporting basis, that is, the
income from the center will pay
for its costs."
The day care center will
accommodate about 100 children
from six weeks to pre-school
age.
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Alumnus
Donates
Funds to
Engineering
Program
by Gary Johnson
The Collegian
Plans to begin the
construction of a new six
million dollar lab complex for
Behrend's engineering and
engineering technology
deportment is scheduled to stmt
in November of this year.
A one million dollar
contribution towards the cost
of construction was donated by
Richard J. Fasemnyer*
president mid chief executive
Officer of RJF International
Corp., Fairiawn, Ohio.
The new addition.
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