University Provost Mike O’Brien hosted a town hall meeting on campus and Zoom on Nov. 22 to address faculty concerns about news of a university budget shortfall of $4 million, expected to affect faculty professional development — though probably not this academic year. “The No. 1 problem is that it was a surprise; a budget should be anything but a surprise,” Faculty Senate President Joe Simpson said in a Zoom interview Dec.1.
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