Budget pains strike campus - Don Weinland, Nevada Sagebrush

Budget cuts, curricular review, academic reductions — campus was abuzz with words like these during the 2009-10 school year. And since March, the vocabulary cast a shadow over university departments and programs, eventually closing eight areas of study. Now in the wake of the storm, the University of Nevada, Reno is counting what it lost, what it learned and what challenges are waiting just around the bend. On March 1, a special session of the Nevada Legislature reduced the university budget by $11 million. Like the previous reduction of $33 million made in July 2009, $3.5 million of the March cuts were made in administrative faculty, student services, operating funds and maintenance. The remaining $7.5 million came out of education.