Budget cuts result in job reassignments
Cuts: Job reassignments
Felice Thompson
Issue date: 3/4/09 Section: News
Peninsula College so far has "saved" $210,000," according to Pres. Thomas Keegan, who said this week that no further faculty or staff layoffs are anticipated through June 30, the end of the current budget year.
However, college Vice President for Instruction, Mary O'Neil-Garrett, notes that four faculty have accepted early retirement and that 31 part time faculty and staff positions would be eliminated after July 1.
Meanwhile, she reports that 19 part time faculty course loads have been cut Spring Quarter. She did not elaborate on which courses and faculty are affected. She was responding in an email to questions about staffing reductions as a result of the financial crisis facing the college.
President Keegan has said the college must trim $1.5 million over the next biennium to balance its anticipated 2009-2011 budget.
The president revealed last week several changes in administrative positions and duties. Administration roles and responsibilities have been shifted, adjusted and expanded to result in the $210,000 savings he noted in an email letter to the campus community.
Bill Eaton, vice president of instruction, requested a re-assignment to Executive Director of the Center of Excellence. This position offers Eaton an opportunity to continue to write grants for the Center and Peninsula College.
In addition he is able to work more with students in local forestry work and in Costa Rica, all of which follow his passions, Eaton said in a recent mass email.
Mary O'Neil Garrett steps up to serve as vice president of instruction, replacing Eaton, and her current position as dean of instruction is eliminated.
"The four tenured faculty who accepted early retirement, Ken Jacobson and three others, will not be replaced, and 31 part-time faculty and staff position are reduced as a result of cutting back on summer programming," O'Neil-Garrett said in an email message to The Buccaneer Monday. "Nineteen part-time faculty course loads have been reduced Spring Quarter and for the 2009-10 academic school year."
However, college Vice President for Instruction, Mary O'Neil-Garrett, notes that four faculty have accepted early retirement and that 31 part time faculty and staff positions would be eliminated after July 1.
Meanwhile, she reports that 19 part time faculty course loads have been cut Spring Quarter. She did not elaborate on which courses and faculty are affected. She was responding in an email to questions about staffing reductions as a result of the financial crisis facing the college.
President Keegan has said the college must trim $1.5 million over the next biennium to balance its anticipated 2009-2011 budget.
The president revealed last week several changes in administrative positions and duties. Administration roles and responsibilities have been shifted, adjusted and expanded to result in the $210,000 savings he noted in an email letter to the campus community.
Bill Eaton, vice president of instruction, requested a re-assignment to Executive Director of the Center of Excellence. This position offers Eaton an opportunity to continue to write grants for the Center and Peninsula College.
In addition he is able to work more with students in local forestry work and in Costa Rica, all of which follow his passions, Eaton said in a recent mass email.
Mary O'Neil Garrett steps up to serve as vice president of instruction, replacing Eaton, and her current position as dean of instruction is eliminated.
"The four tenured faculty who accepted early retirement, Ken Jacobson and three others, will not be replaced, and 31 part-time faculty and staff position are reduced as a result of cutting back on summer programming," O'Neil-Garrett said in an email message to The Buccaneer Monday. "Nineteen part-time faculty course loads have been reduced Spring Quarter and for the 2009-10 academic school year."
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