Maryland chancellor warns of budget cuts - John Wagner, Washington Post

=With the leading players in Annapolis set to meet Tuesday morning, the chancellor of the University System of Maryland is urging the legislature to reconvene and take additional action on the budget in order to avoid deep spending cuts at the state’s public universities. “It is imperative that we fully recognize and understand how much is at risk,” Chancellor William E. Kirwan writes in an opinion piece appearing the Baltimore Sun. Maryland lawmakers ended their 90-day session on April 9 without enacting an agreed-upon tax package, triggering cuts of more than $500 million if the legislature does not reconvene before July. Under the so-called “doomsday” budget, funding for the university system would be cut by nearly $50 million. Kirwan writes that the result would be reductions in financial aid, programmatic cuts and layoffs of faculty and staff.