UVU's perfect storm? Budget cuts, enrollment growth stall progress - Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune

We lost ground," said Liz Hitch, the academics vice president who served as interim president for UVU's first year as a university. "We had a perfect storm. We had huge popularity, an economic downturn that causes students to come back to school, and significant budget cuts." By the end of the academic year, salaried faculty slipped to about 50 percent of the total, average teaching loads were around 27 hours, and the university employed one adviser for every 468 students.