The Sky Is Falling At UNLV!!!

From The Las Vegas Sun: UNLV President Neal Smatresk told a somber Faculty Senate on Tuesday that the administration was planning a kind of bankruptcy to deal with its budget crunch.
Under the "financial exigency" plan, tenured professors could be fired and whole departments and programs more easily closed down.
Earlier this month, the Board of Regents said it would be premature to consider such a move until the Legislature approved a final budget by June.
Smatresk told the faculty group that the cuts for UNLV would total $47.5 million and would need to be implemented by July 2012, so a plan for financial exigency would have to be prepared....
"We would have to declare financial exigency," Smatresk said. He added, "I believe the proposed cuts could materialize."
He and other officials would spend the next few weeks developing cutback plans with deans and faculty groups.
"It's very clear our state is approaching a state of fiscal collapse" when it comes to education, Smatresk said.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/15/unlv-president-outlines-plan-prepare-state-fiscal-/

Umm, yeah. fiscal collapse. this after days where UNLV wants to build a new arena and stadium. This after paying Dina Titus $107,000+ to teach 1 class and spend 6 hours a week on campus. http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2011/01/she-works-hard-for-her-money.html

And I am sure a lot of people are being employed in the fields of: Romance Languages, Senior Adult Theater, Spanish and another major - Spanish for Professions, Women Studies, Multidisciplinary Studies, Latin American Studies, Afro American Studies, Italian Studies (Minor), History, Great Works (certificate), Ethnic Studies (minor)English, Art and Historyhttp://majors.unlv.edu/Then you have advanced degrees- Masters and Doctorates: Anthropology, Art, Creative Writing, English, History and Screenwriting http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2010/09/are-you-sure-some-of-these-programs.html

So, cry me a river, UNLV President Neal Smatresk and stop saying the sky is falling. UNLV and the Board of Regents said that last year and the year before. Deal with it like most private companies have to do.