Our plan would be simple. To meet Yudof’s savings targets, a number of employees would be laid off sufficient to save 8% of the payroll. The choices in staff cuts would be difficult, but they are necessary if the regents are unwilling to raise tuition further. Specific decisions on whom to lay off would be decentralized to campuses, and within campuses to schools or departments. In the case of tenured faculty, for better or worse, they have a good measure of protection. But if an entire unit is eliminated, tenured faculty within it can be fired. Thus, while tenure means that we cannot be fired for writing this Op-Ed article, the university can decide that it does not have the resources to have a law school. Those who remain would get full pay but be asked to pick up much of the slack by cutting out their least productive 8% to 10% of activities.

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by Robert Cooter and Aaron Edlin , The Los Angeles Times.

Posted: July 16th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.