At the U. of Arizona, Goals Collide With Reality

Ericc Kelderman, Chronicle of Higher Education

To be at the University of Arizona these days is, in some ways, to be under siege.

The flagship university in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states may have to eliminate some 600 jobs and merge dozens of programs to deal with two rounds of budget cuts imposed since June. Now the governor is telling the university and other state agencies to prepare for cuts of as much as 20 percent for the next fiscal year.

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i29/29a00101.htm

Russell Group counts the cost as allocations slash the funding available per researcher

Zoë Corbyn, Times Higher Education

England’s elite research universities have lost an average of more than £6,000 per researcher as a result of last week’s funding allocations, according to a new analysis by Times Higher Education.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405756