University of California Riverside campus in Palm Desert slashes budget by 40 percent

The executive director of the University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert campus, and five other employees were laid off effective Monday, the school reported Friday. The cutbacks, which represented 40 percent of the graduate center’s budget, should not impact academic programs and were caused by state budget cuts, not performance, said Marcia McQuern, associate vice chancellor for Strategic Communications at UCR.

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by Michelle Mitchell, The Desert Sun.

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