UMD makes cuts to student jobs in Sustainability Office - ARIEL WITTENBERG, South Coast Today

Thirteen student workers in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's Office of Community and Campus Sustainability will be out of a job come Dec. 21 due to a $150,000 budget deficit. In a memo sent to sustainability office employees this week, Assistant Provost Matthew Roy wrote that the university discovered "a large and growing budget deficit" after it reviewed the office's books. The review was conducted because the university recently transferred the office from the School of Engineering to the School of Education, Public Policy and Civic Engagement. "This unfortunate situation leaves us with no choice, but to restructure the sustainability operation and to inform all non-grant funded employees that their employment will be terminated effective 12/21/12," Roy wrote. http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121117/NEWS/211170347/-1/NEWS10