Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Janina Montero said budget
cuts to the university this year will force the school to cut some
student services while raising the prices of others.
Montero said when considering how to restructure campus services
to offset budget reductions, one of the university’s main
foci is maintaining the scope and quality of services already
offered.
Keeping student services affordable and protecting staff
positions are also priorities, she added.
Because it would be impossible to maintain the current level of
services offered on campus without raising any prices, Montero said
the university would have to cut some services and raise some
fees.
“There is no doubt that there will be quite a bit of pain
across the board,” she said.
Montero said the university has not “totally
recovered” from budget reductions it suffered in the 1990s,
meaning it is dealing with the effects of more than just the most
recent funding cuts.
Among the strategies aimed at dealing with the budget
reductions, the university plans to redistribute responsibilities
among employees it hires, Montero said. She said this could lead to
a reduction in the number of student workers and staff on
campus.
The student programming center will be able to hire fewer
student workers, and some student groups might have to wait to see
a counselor, she said.
Montero added that the career center will not operate during
evening hours, and other prospects under consideration are
implementing student user fees for transcript services and reducing
the number of counselors at the center.
Although some services can be reduced, others cannot be cut,
Montero said.
Because asking people to wait to receive medical treatment is
not an option, Montero said the university may increase health
center fees to maintain the availability of basic services offered
by the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center.
The university also will rely more heavily on e-mail to
communicate, in order to reduce the costs incurred through
printing, she said.
With reports from Adam Foxman, Bruin Contributor.