{"id":31297,"date":"2016-02-22T09:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/university-of-alaska-prepares-to-lose-millions-in-state-funding\/"},"modified":"2016-02-22T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T17:02:53","slug":"university-of-alaska-prepares-to-lose-millions-in-state-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/university-of-alaska-prepares-to-lose-millions-in-state-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Alaska prepares to lose millions in state funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU<\/strong> \u2014 A slump in oil prices has officials looking at the amount and impact of a deep cut in the University of Alaska budget.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Bill Walker announced a plan to cut $16 million from the budget, while North Pole Republican Rep. Tammie Wilson suggested a bigger reduction of $63 million, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.<\/p>\n<p>The current budget is $351 million.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, the finance subcommittee chair, said during a Thursday meeting that her proposal does not include funding for research or athletics because not all legislators agree the state should shoulder those costs.<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee is expected to vote on a funding plan Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen told the Board of Regents Friday that cuts would mean a considerable program reduction and could result in 450 to 500 fewer university positions.<\/p>\n<p>Regent Kenneth Fisher said at least a year\u2019s notice is required to lay off those in tenured positions.<\/p>\n<p>Johnsen said there could be long-term damage if cuts force the university system, a campus or program to declare financial exigency, which many see as similar to bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile legally, technically it\u2019s different than Chapter 11 (bankruptcy) I think in most people\u2019s eyes it\u2019s very similar,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019d be sending a very negative message out to the Alaska community if we took that approach. That will be a tough decision but one that would come to this body before it\u2019s ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he was confident the legislature would come back with a number that\u2019s north of $288 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow far north, I\u2019m not sure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Information from: Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner, http:\/\/www.newsminer.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 A slump in oil prices has officials looking at the amount and impact of a deep cut in the University of Alaska budget. Gov. Bill Walker announced a plan to cut $16 million from the budget, while North Pole Republican Rep. Tammie Wilson suggested a bigger reduction of $63 million, the Fairbanks Daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31297"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}