U of Saskatchewan moves ahead with reforms - JEREMY WARREN, THE STARPHOENIX

The University of Saskatchewan wouldn’t have avoided tough budget decisions even if a non-confidence vote on a sweeping reform process on campus had succeeded this week, top administrators say. “The budget decisions that we are looking at for the university are serious ones — I’ve said that many times before — and I think people recognized these are important decisions,” said Brett Fairbairn, U of S provost and vice-president, after a University Council meeting on Thursday. ritics of the TransformUS process, which aims to chop millions of dollars from the university’s annual budget, say U of S administrators are using a flawed system to determine which academic programs and support services are cut or reduced to achieve their financial plan. http://www.thestarphoenix.com/moves+ahead+with+reforms/9560938/story.html