While the 30% cut to our retirements stung, costing us each thousands of dollars in our annual compensation, the larger issue is that faculty and staff have been asked to bear the brunt of deep cuts to the academic mission. Boschini said “we didn’t release one freakin’ person from TCU” last year, but he neglected to mention that the university eliminated 6% of full-time faculty positions for the upcoming year. These are largely going unfilled after 27 professors took early retirement incentives and while lecturers on year-to-year contracts were not renewed. We all know faculty and staff colleagues who have worked at TCU for years who are being let go in May, not to be replaced, with the rest of us left to take on their duties. The library, the academic heart of the university, has lost almost 20% of its staff and more than half of its book budget.
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