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Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy (R) vetoed a line from the state’s budget that funds the University of Alaska system on June 28, reports KTVA. The cut amounts to $130 million, which is about 40 percent of the system’s total budget.
The cut will almost certainly lead to layoffs and program eliminations, Cathy Sandeen, the chancellor of the University of Alaska at Anchorage, tells Inside Higher Ed. “We don’t know how the system or board is going to carry out the cut across the various institutions,” Sandeen says. “Just conservatively it pencils out to be around 700 positions. That is massive.”
In response, the university’s Board of Regents held an emergency meeting, reports KTVA. Jim Johnsen, the president of the University of Alaska system, says he is implementing hiring and travel freezes, according to KTVA. He also says a furlough notice will go out to ...
