Columbia’s 2016 budget hints at deep cuts - Jacob Wittich, Columbia Chronicle

Although it is early in the Spring 2015 semester, the college is already making preparations for the next academic year’s budget, a move that will result in staff reductions and budget cuts and require departments to project financial needs months earlier than in past years. Preparation for the 2016 fiscal year’s budget began the week of Feb. 16, and the college is taking a new approach to the budget-building process, according to a Feb. 18 email to faculty and staff of the college from Michelle Gates, vice president of Business Affairs and CFO, and Stan Wearden, senior vice president and provost. http://www.columbiachronicle.com/campus/article_22053c42-bf14-11e4-880c-d36c6f43d8ed.html