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Eliminating these “chancellor” or “provost” jobs now, means they were not needed in the past. They we just titles with no real purpose. Now people that teach, clean, fix, cook etc. that actually produce something are the important jobs. To the others getting the ax go milk someone except the tax payers. Take Brady and Bowles with you.

What about the Office of Diversity and Feel Goodness that was in the works?

A cursory drive down Spring Garden Street would seem to indicate that the Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity Prevention should probably stay in place.

My only concern regarding the reaction to the economic downturn by our public educational institutions is the effort to make them shrink. Meanwhile, any business that expects to survive this current economic environment is working on plans for growth and change. The true winner will be the ones that were capable of creating new and different variations of themselves that fit the needs of their customers. All evidence points to a growth in demand for educational institutions. It won't be the teachers, cooks (oh, they're outsourced and not state employees) and maintenance folks who work to study, create, and serve as stewards for measurable change and growth of an institution of higher education. UNCG has served Guilford county and the state of North Carolina well, returning on the money invested on all levels. The short sighted belief that our economic ills are because we've built large (successful, service-oriented, good job creating) institutions just doesn't make much sense.

As Sienfeld puts it- "THAT'S A SHAME"!! LOL!!

To some it seems that the people losing their jobs in the cuts somehow 'deserve' their fate. I would say that most if not all have worked hard to get where they are, that state jobs do not pay extremely high wages at this level, and most if not all have homes and families that depend on their income to make ends meet. In this job market, they will have a tough time finding a new position.

IT's ABOUT TIME! Real, for profit businesses have been laying off folks for a couple of years to appropriately manage during this fiscal crisis. Hopefully UNC will be next as if you recall from a previous News-Record article they had 11,000 complaining employees to cover 30,000 students. What business in the world would have 1 employee to cover 3 customers?!

Your comment addresses some of the differences between public and for-profit institution. The shame of lay-offs is that the assumption is that the business was not growing in customer base or level of services provided. People were unproductive. The exact opposite is occuring at the state universities and public schools. Their customer base is growing and they are trying to develop more extensive programs that will serve the long-term interests of North Carolina. I would have thought that folks in this region would have a more enlightented perspective of lay-offs considering the loss of large portions of the furniture and textile industry to foreign production, not a lack of business, but a focus on profit for stock-holders and management. The thought that we want our government to emulate current corporate ethical practice is a frightening thought.

I generally feel sympathy for anyone who loses their job, but in the case of our, our almost all, far too liberal,colleges and universities, I have a tough time ginning up that sympathy. It has been the leftist professors who have indoctrinated pliable young minds to believe that this is a bad country, that there is moral equivalence between Israel, and the terrorists that TARGET school buses, and wedding receptons, that global warming is a PROVEN fact, that diversity excludes diversity of OPINION, that it is fine to have free speech ZONES on college campuses, which are SUPPOSED to be places where there is a diversity of ideas, and an open exchange of ideas. Right!

There is so much more damage these people do, but space prevents a full accounting. We would be much better off closing most of these left wing indoctriantion camps in favor of TRADE and TECHNICAL schools where people can actually be trained to be useful and contribute to society. I would exclude Medical schools from the purge, but begin with the Law schools!

Having said that, I truly feel bad for the employees in the non-indoctrination related positions whose lives are affected. But things should be picking up soon because the Community Organizer, and Vice Community Organizer, and reported by their personal newsletter, Newsweek, said that the recession is over. Hmm, then why is the congress readying another unemployment benefits "emergency" extension!

Layoffs are always unfortunate, but government and academic employees seem to live in their own world of entitlement, completely different from those of us in the private sector. Most of us have to pay big insurance premiums or go without insurance, have no retirement unless we can afford to fund a 401-k, are lucky to get 2 weeks vacation per year, can never call in sick without risking our jobs, and don't get to go to retreats and seminars throughout the year. Government and academic employees seem to think those things are rights! Welcome to the real world.

Well,
Help me understand.
New Athletic Director. Forced old guy out.
Moving up in basketball. Playing at the coliseum.
Wow

First, I might as well note that I'm on the list. My position and my center will no longer be funded by the state, at least not in the near term. We're getting by on private funding for now, as we did partially prior to this.

Second, anyone who thinks that what applies to a regular business should apply to a university like UNCG is someone who truly does not understand higher education. That's not to suggest that higher education should be immune to what's going on in the economy, but it does imply that it's not a one-size-fits-all proposition.

Norm* and histrion are basically right. Before the cuts started, UNCG employed just 2,674 faculty and staff and had enrollment of 19,976 students. Its student-to-staff ratio, a measure (though not the only measure) of the staff's efficiency in serving the student body, is the 4th highest among the 17 UNC campuses and much higher than UNCG's peer institutions around the country.

UNCG has actually been quite careful with its resources. Between 2005 and 2008, on only 4 of the 17 UNC campuses was the growth in faculty and staff slower than student enrollment. UNCG was one of them. At its peer institutions, the average growth in faculty and staff was faster than in the number of students.