Their loss is also bad for graduate programs. But we feel this issue is timely enough to present the result we have found so far. Agriculture is holding steady. What seems to be going on in COLA can perhaps best be described as dire. Thirty requests for lines have been submitted, and chairs have been told that only about 12 lines will be funded.
Chairs are very anxious about the negative impact of unfilled lines on their programs.
Several deans have been attempting to find the money from other places than faculty lines. Some have moved into deferring needed maintenance and equipment money. Start up costs in the college of science have been decreased. In departments in which ongoing lines have not been approved, the effects are becoming critical. Because of line cuts in previous years, many departments are stretched to or beyond their capacities, and every cut of a faculty line has direct and negative effects on their programs.