KU showing effects of prolonged budget squeeze - Andy Hyland, LJ World

As Kansas University continues to strain in the face of the realities of state budget cuts, indications of the effects are all over campus. The school will absorb another 1.193 percent reduction in its state funding for the 2012 fiscal year that begins this month. Sure, there are the big things. Rodolfo Torres, a KU math professor who will serve as the faculty senate president this year, is quick to mention that faculty and staff have gone three years without salary increases. “It’s really affecting the morale of the faculty,” he said, and he has heard of some who have left the university for higher-paying jobs. KU recently approved limited raises as part of a tuition increase. But KU is seeing all kinds of other signs of scrimping, saving and increased efficiencies all over campus.