This doesn't look good

IronMan4 · February 18, 2003

All I have heard is that course avaliability will remain the same, but sparse sections will be combined. Then I got this email and got worried:

February 18, 2003

Greetings,

We are pleased you are a student in the University of North Texas

College of Education.

As you have probably heard or read, the State of Texas has requested

that universities statewide return funds to the State. The University

of North Texas must return seven percent (7%) of its funds for the

current fiscal year. This could affect the number and scheduling of

courses in the forthcoming semesters. The College of Education faculty

and staff are working hard to serve you and maintain the integrity of

our academic programs for this summer. Since the printed schedule of

classes was prepared, changes in course offerings may have taken place.

Please refer to the schedule of classes website (www.unt.edu/catsched)

from time to time for an

up-to-date listing of classes being offered during the 2003 May

Mini-mester, Summer I, and Summer II sessions.

Please register and pay your tuition early to ensure you are in the

classes that you need. Please continue checking the drop and add

feature of registration to adjust your schedule.

The Student Advising Office, staff in Matthews Hall 105, are available

to help you Monday-Friday, 8:00 am. 5:00 p.m. Also, your faculty

advisors are available to you. And again, check the schedule of classes

website often.

Please work with us to meet your needs for summer by planning,

registering, and paying tuition early so that you and we can know which

classes will be offered.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

M. Jean Keller

Dean

CMJ · February 18, 2003

It sure doesn't. The cutting of funds is gonna hurt pretty badly.

UNTFan23 · February 18, 2003

You shouldn't be worried about the cuts in classes and such this year, it's what's coming down the road that should scare A LOT of people.

We're just seeing the top of the iceberg folks.

CMJ · February 19, 2003

Some of you folks need to hurry up and graduate. I'm glad I got out before some of this stuff went down, not only cutbacks on classes but things like the +/- grading scale too.

IronMan4 · February 19, 2003

That's why this concerns me. I need the summer classes to graduate quickly as possible. It worries me that they pretty much say "Sign up for your classes and hope they stick".

GreenMachine · February 19, 2003

even back quite a few years ago when I was in school, several times summer classes were dropped due to low numbers. I think that if it is a class that is full to semi-full, they will still hold it.

CaraBear · February 20, 2003

I know I am taking tons of summer classes to complete my graduation. I am praying they wont cancel any of them.

EagleChick03 · February 20, 2003

Wow, at least the COE is sending out a letter to students. CAS hasn't sent out anything and probably won't! COE seems to do a great job taking care of their students.

Cerebus · February 20, 2003

I think CAS is trying to make sure they dont have to make any cuts.

EagleChick03 · February 21, 2003

I think CAS is trying to make sure they dont have to make any cuts.

That would be fantastic but how can one college make cuts and others not show any effects of the budget problem? That doesn't seem fair...

Sound_Man · February 21, 2003

By choosing to cut money in other areas

EagleChick03 · February 21, 2003

By my question I meant, how can the college of edu maybe have to cut classes and college of a&s try not to?

Cerebus · February 21, 2003

CAS is huge, about half the buildings on campus belong to CAS. CAS also has about 1/2 of all of the students on campus, and almost every single student who attends UNT has to spent quite a bit of time in CAS classes to complete the "core" portion of thier degree.

In other words, its huge, and the support staff it has is huge and well funded. I would expect for most of the departments to not replace staff as they leave naturally, making services slower, but keeping the amount of services almsot unchanged.

Also, and this is a big factor, CAS has by far the largest amount of Grant money coming in, and most of that is long term and is not going to be effected by the weak economy for a while.

chomp · February 22, 2003

I can't tell you about the CAS as a whole, but in terms of my department within the college we have not yet been led to believe that we will have to cut courses in the fall. We have consolidated some summer courses. I expect to be teaching the courses that I am currently scheduled to teach next year. Hopefully we will weather the budget cuts!

JayDub · February 22, 2003

I can't tell you about the CAS as a whole, but in terms of my department within the college we have not yet been led to believe that we will have to cut courses in the fall. We have consolidated some summer courses. I expect to be teaching the courses that I am currently scheduled to teach next year. Hopefully we will weather the budget cuts!

It's nice to have some faculty around here....

Just figured it was time to mention that....