ULM hopes, with additional faculty, to increase class size from 75 to 100 to increase revenue. One of the few vacancies not in health sciences is in physics and has already been filled by Arlen Zander, who stepped down from provost. Turner said Wednesday that attrition will make up the cuts this year. Some of those employees appear in the budget, but resigned during the six weeks before the start of the fall semester. Faculty overloads and adjunct faculty covered all scheduled classes whose teachers left after the budget was compiled, he said Liberal arts and education will each lose eight vacant positions.
Health sciences loses five in communicative disorders.
Pure and applied sciences loses nine. Two vacancies in maintenance and four in institutional support will not be filled, and student services will gain two new positions for a net decline of four. A contract for food service operation is on the UofLa board's agenda today. The university will seek financing to renovate four dorms a year. A savings in maintenance from the closed dormitories shows up on the report, but an accompanying reduction in rental revenue is not apparent.