Federal stimulus funds have bought fast-growing MTSU time to spread major job cuts over two years, but the task looms larger with proposed budget cuts now reaching $31 million. MTSU President Sidney McPhee informed his faculty and staff last August how the university is receiving $17.6 million in stimulus funding in each of the next two years. But once that expires, other measures will have to be taken.
"We have to get rid of faculty and staff at the same time that the number of students is going up," university economics professor Bill Ford said. But, "we're not having to get rid of people as fast as we would have had to do otherwise."
