Hate to see it happen to departments that need and deserve it, but also hate to see the way universities have become bloated and wasteful.

University of Utah leaders have instructed all departments to run a “planning exercise” for anticipated budget cuts — including asking one area of campus that provides direct support for student mental health counseling and disability services to prepare for as much as a 25% reduction.
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Their instructions to deans and division heads to start planning for cuts came this fall, just days before House Speaker Mike Schultz first spoke publicly about his intentions to either cut some of the budget for higher education or shift funding to programs that he considers high performing. In an interview with The Tribune, he focused on a figure of 10%.
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Montoya told the academic colleges to all prepare documents explaining a 10% cut. But “services and support areas” that report to her, she said, should “plan for reductions of up to ten to twenty-five percent.”

Those other areas are student supports and includes, for instance, Student Affairs — which houses programs for financial planning, the counseling center, disability services, student government and what’s remained of cultural programs after the DEI cuts (veterans support and Native American services, among a few others).