Southern pushes its faculty for pay cuts


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Southern University "likely" will ask to declare a financial emergency next week unless nearly all of the faculty agrees to furloughs and shorter termination notices.
Southern's new chancellor, James Llorens, told The Advocate (http://bit.ly/nJkOHR ) Wednesday the budget shortfall proved larger than expected and greater demands are being asked of the faculty. But some of faculty members are balking at the requests, essentially creating a standoff with Southern's administration.

Declaring a financial emergency, called exigency, allows the administration more leeway to lay off tenured faculty and axe academic programs. Exigency is generally considered a serious blemish that could scare away current and potential employees.


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This is only the beginning SU...next no classes on Friday....no workers on Friday....I'm praying for you all.
 

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Grambling has already implemented half day Fridays, that began last year. Dr. Pogue has done well on prioritizing, furloughs etc.
 
The Founder said:
...next no classes on Friday....no workers on Friday....
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This may not be a bad idea a lot of schools should start to investigate. Also, leverage more of the online capabilities as it's now cheaper than hell to implement/track/et al. :read:

Hoping it works out for all SWAC schools as this new "process" endures.
 
Panther88 said:
This may not be a bad idea a lot of schools should start to investigate. Also, leverage more of the online capabilities as it's now cheaper than hell to implement/track/et al. :read:

Hoping it works out for all SWAC schools as this new "process" endures.
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I agree. When I went back to school for my 2nd BS degree, a lot of the programs (School of Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health, etc) did not have classes on Friday. This was back in 2004.

The idea of on-line degree programs has hurt a lot of schools, not just HBCUs. I really would like to see more HBCUs have online degree programs, not just distance-learning courses.

We (really) have to do a better job at prioritizing and start putting people in place who will plan better and have more innovative ideas.
 
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