The faculty union at Southern Oregon University is reacting to news that the school plans to cut programs and staff in order to fill a $4 million budget shortfall by the year 2015. Board members of the Association of Professors at Southern Oregon University will meet Wednesday night to discuss the issue. SOU President Mary Cullinan addressed the matter on Tuesday in her annual State of the University speech. Cullinan said reductions in state funding along with two consecutive years of decreased enrollment contributed to the financial crisis. The president then said the school was exercising a clause in its collective bargaining agreement to begin a planning process to reduce, reconfigure or eliminate academic programs. http://www.opb.org/news/article/southern-oregon-university-plans-cuts-amid-budget-shortfall/
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