Tenured faculty could lose jobs at the University of Montana - KEILA SZPALLER, Missoulian

Cuts to tenured faculty are not off the table as a way for the University of Montana to fix its budget problems. Thursday, a committee of the Montana Board of Regents heard an update on UM's process of evaluating and ranking programs as one approach to its financial challenges. After the meeting, UM Provost Beverly Edmond said tenured faculty may be affected as a result of the process, which aims to make public initial recommendations on Nov. 8. Edmond, who is leading the task force to set priorities, also said retrenchment — a process used to terminate tenured faculty for financial or programmatic reasons — is not off the table. "It would be premature for me to say any particular, specific outcome is off the table," Edmond said after a campus report on the process to set program priorities. http://missoulian.com/news/local/tenured-faculty-may-be-affected-at-the-university-of-montana/article_7cada129-274f-57a2-91a0-a2e2510a53a5.html