Budget cuts force University of Alberta to eliminate 10 faculty positions - Alex Migdal, The Gateway (University of Alberta)

Despite cutting three vacant faculty positions for a savings of $500,000, the University of Alberta's Faculty of Arts is still planning to eliminate a total of 15 support staff positions. A $1.5 million deficit caused by a faculty-wide two per cent budget cut last April has left the faculty scrambling to find savings, leading to an initiative termed the Administrative Process Review Project (AdPReP). Through AdPReP, the faculty has found another $1 million in savings by eliminating seven tenured faculty positions from professors who have accepted retirement packages, which will take effect July 1. Those savings will go towards the next faculty-wide two per cent budget cut that will eliminate another $1.5 million from the arts budget on April 1.