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LSA," Hanlon added.
McDonald arrived at the University in
1980, after receiving his doctorate in
American history from Stanford Univer-
sity. His administrative positions include
serving as associate LSA dean from
1995-2000, serving for one semester as
interim chair of the history department,
and serving as interim LSA dean since
July 2002.
McDonald has written or edited four
books andreceivedmany teaching awards
forhis workas ahistory professor.
Rackham student Karen Miller has
known McDonald, who was her academ-
ic advisor, for 10 years and said she feels
McDonald "is an excellent diplomat -
that is, he is very good at listening to
people, and good at figuring out how to
coordinate people's needs."
Although McDonald seems to be
enjoying widespread support among the
faculty, many agree that the responsibili-
ties placed on the Dean great
"The budget issues will of course be
pressing on all of us," Hanlon said.
"He'll have to deal with it whether he
chooses to or not."
This year the University endured one
of the largest hudget cuts in several
years, and is looking forward to a further
decrease in funding if the governor's pro-
posed budget is adoptedby lawmakers.
"We are dealing with difficulties in the
budget, and (McDonald) must face that,
and raise money externally' Courant said.
McDonald said he agrees with the
many faculty members who feel that his
most pressing issue as dean will be deal-
ing with the tightbudget.
"The most important issue facing me
will be to maintain our high quality of
education in the face of state restric-
tions," McDonald said.
However, dealing with the state budg-
et is not the only hardship McDonald
will bear if confinned as LSA dean.
"The dean of LSA manages a budget
of $214 million and oversees 1,100
employees," McDonald said. "In addi-
tion, 70 percent of all undergrads at the
University are in LSA,"he added.
Burns said she has little doubt that
McDonald can perform to the level of
his appointment. "I think his leadership
will take (LSA) to new heights, Burns
said. "He will expand the top depart-
ments of LSA while maintaining the
strengths of all the departments."
Coleman, cabinet decline pay
raise in face of budget cuts
By Trista Van Tine appropriate decision. We are serious es. Coleman said she is, "very
For the Daily about the budget challenges and each impressed by the way people are try-
of us are really trying to do our ing to work together to solve this
As a result of the decision made share. This decision by the faculty problem."
by University President Mary Sue comes as the University may be fac- In response to questions concern-
Coleman and her cabinet to decline ing a budget gap of $76.4 million. ing tuition increase Coleman said,
salary raises for next year, it is esti- This gap includes the decrease in "we do not know what the tuition
mated that the University will save state aid under Governor Jennifer rates will be yet, but any increase
approximately $112,000. Granholm's proposed budget, and will be moderate. Normally, we
This money would have been dis- Coleman said, "health insurance ben- would already know the budget and
tributed among the executive offi- efits for faculty and staff will proba- be acting, but the legislation has
cers who earn $200,000 to bly increase by 15 to 17 percent and not passed anything yet because
$280,000 per year, with the excep- the University is constantly signing they are struggling with tough deci-
tion of Coleman who earns new contracts for utilities such as sions as well."
$475,000 and Interim Executive natural gas - factors that are also Although balancing the budget has
Vice President Lazar Greenfield. creating financial difficulties." been very difficult, Coleman does
Coleman said she announced her Current plans to balance the budg- not expect tuition to increase the
decision to the Board of Regents et include eliminating 50 faculty speculated 20 percent that some
several weeks ago, and soon after her positions that were to be added next other institutions have reported.
cabinet members independently year, as well as 250 staff positions, Coleman added that, "The University
expressed to her their desires to do although Coleman said that ultimate- of Michigan is no longer the most
the same. Coleman said the decision ly they would like to add these posi- expensive public University in the
was largely symbolic. tions because the University is United States. Pennsylvania State
Vice President for Governmnt always trying to be more efficient. University has recently surpassed
Relations Cynthia Wilbanks, who The University has already imple- (the University), and other universi-
earns $222,000 said, "Under the cir- mented some layoffs and delayed ties are not far behind."
cumstances I felt that this was an renovations and equipment purchas-
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Possibly the largest area of debate among lawmakers has
been over the "four tier" system of cuts, which places the
state's 15 universities into four different categories where
they receive funding based on factors such as enrollment size
and per- student funding. This particular system of 'differen-
tial' cuts is used almost exclusively for higher education.
"I am by no means in favor of differential cuts beyond
this bill," said Rep. David Farhat (R-Muskegon), vice
chair of the House appropriations subcommittee on high-
er education. "It wasn't like we had a lot of money that
we were just handing out to those few universities. We
had a small amount of money that was shared between
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