The UCSC faculty Committee on Planning and Budget issued a brief response Friday to Yudof’s recommendations, saying the plan should not cut the salaries of the lowest-paid workers and must be clear about the effect on future benefits and when pay rates would be restored. The committee also suggests the university should look at other savings options. "While we were asked to review this proposal, it is critical to note that the decision-making process itself has failed to lay out possible long-term alternatives to salary reductions that might include reducing instruction or planning to reduce the UC’s holdings via the sale of assets," the committee’s statement said. "The absence of such major policy guidance from the UC leadership is deeply disturbing."

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by J.M. Brown, The San Jose Mercury News.

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