The University faces a $180 million budget shortfall during FY 2021 due to the pandemic, which officials have sought to address through measures like layoffs and the suspension of base and matching retirement contributions. “We are coming out of a complete shutdown of the University – we need to actually invest right now, we need to rehire people, we need to go out on conferences, we need to pick up research,” Griesshammer said. “Our students need to have new opportunities to travel internationally. We should actually have a much bigger budget than in 2019 because there are going to be expenses that we never had been thinking about in 2019.”
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