About 500 fewer students are attending South Carolina State University in Orangeburg this year, leaving the university facing a $5.5 million deficit. Vice President of Finance Eric Eaton is proposing a freeze on hiring and an across-the-board 7% budget cut to get the institution back on track. The school's finance committee will consider the ideas at a meeting later this month. Eaton says the cuts and freeze would leave the university $366,000 ahead at the end of the budget year.
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