More than 300 people employed by UT campuses will lose their jobs over the next two years.
Officials said 500 positions will be cut, but 300 of those positions are full now. Interim UT President Jan Simek said those people will be told they need to start looking for other work.
UT board members also today voted to endorse a plan to eliminate seven vice presidential positions from the UT system organization. Five of the positions are being renamed. Two positions will be completely cut. Only one person, Sylvia Davis, the vice president for strategic planning and operations, could be laid off. The plan will be adopted immediately, said Jan Simek, UT interim president.
The UT board will meet in August to discuss further cuts to the system administration.
Joan Garrett has been a staff writer for the Times Free Press since August 2007. Before becoming a general assignment writer for the paper, she wrote about business, higher education and the court systems. She grew up the oldest of five sisters near Birmingham, Ala., and graduated with a master's and bachelor's degrees in journalism from the University of Alabama. Before landing her first full-time job as a reporter at the Times Free Press, she ...
We will lay off staff and can't hire professors to fill vacant positions. But by gosh, we have a football coach and a full slate of assistants. So how could anyone complain?
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