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The Bottom Line: Teaching assistants, adjuncts first to go in proposed cuts

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With state budget cuts looming, the College of Arts & Sciences at Oklahoma State developed its own approach for preparedness.

The state of Oklahoma is facing a $900 million deficit for fiscal year 2017, a 12.9 percent reduction from the 2016 state budget, according to the fiscal year 2017 executive budget summary from Governor Mary Fallin.

In the fall of 2015, Bret Danilowicz requested each Arts & Sciences department submit a budget proposal for the fiscal year 2017.

The dean of Arts & Sciences asked each department to find areas where cuts could be made, while ensuring a high-quality education.

“We don’t know exactly what the state budgets cuts will be, so we set up to have departments do that,” Danilowicz said. “We asked department heads to work in consultation with faculty and the department to come up with those kind of scenarios.”

Each department’s budget proposal was obtained for this story. The university, however, has redacted much of the data, and the proposals are only preliminary possibilities. Nevertheless, valuable information can still be gleaned from the documents.

Areas where cuts can be made in each department for budget reductions of two, five and eight percent are included in the proposals. As the percentage of cuts increases, the damage to the departments continues to grow.

In many cases, departments may be forced to reduce funding for graduate students as well as several faculty positions.

The English department at OSU could cut back on the number of temporary faculty lines, such as adjunct instructors. Starting with the two percent reduction plan, the department could save at least

Arts and Sciences Budget Cut Proposal A section of the 5 percent plan of the Oklahoma State University Arts & Sciences budget proposal for the history department shows redactions, including three digits of some of the dollar amounts for the budget.

$40,000 by cutting one temporary faculty position, according to the department’s proposal.

As the cuts increase to five and eight percent, more faculty lines are cut. A five or eight percent cut could result in the loss of three or five temporary faculty positions respectively, which would save the department between $120 - $200 thousand, according to the depart-

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ment’s proposals.

Richard Frohock said he was directly involved in the creation of the English department budget proposals. However, the head of the English department said he worked with an advisory committee and department faculty before deciding on the best options.

“We tried to look for areas where we had inefficiencies,”

Frohock said. “One thing you can do is count up the number of empty seats you have and reduce the number of sections offered.

“That allows us to do a little less staffing.”

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would remain unchanged. To fill the gap left by temporary faculty, the department could assign more graduate teaching assistants, who are normally in the department’s writing center, to the classroom.

“If for instance, we cut back on adjuncts, then we can take some TA’s out of the writing center and put them in the classroom,” Frohock said. “So, there is a bit of flexibility there in how many we assign to the writing center.”

Laura Belmonte said she, too, met with her advisory committee, made up of faculty within the history department, to create the proposals. The head of the history department said, however, the proposals were then presented to history department faculty for a vote.

For each possible percentage of

reductions, the department would steadily increase a cut in funding for the graduate program.

For the two-percent reduction, the department proposed cutting two teaching assistant positions, which would save at least $21,000. The five-percent reduction could cause four teaching assistant positions to be cut, while the eight-percent plan results in the loss of eight total teaching assistant spots, according to the department’s proposals.

The five- and eight-percent teaching assistant cuts would save a total of at least $47,000 or $91,000, respectively, according to the proposals.

Belmonte said such cuts would not only affect the graduate students, but also the undergraduates as well.

“It’s going to mean that the teaching assistants and the instructors who supervise them will have

more papers and exams to grade,” Belmonte said. “So students will have to wait longer for feedback.”

Belmonte said the proposed cuts wouldn’t affect the teaching assistants at OSU. However, it could make OSU a less attractive destination for potential graduate students.

“For incoming recruits, we didn’t have as many TA lines to offer as an incentive to come to OSU,” Belmonte said.

William Jaco said the mathematics department would begin its cuts by reducing graduate student funds as well. The head of the mathematics department said cutting teaching assistant positions will heavily affect the graduate program as well as create much larger class sections.

“It’s hard,” Jaco said. “It’s not what you want to do because we’ve found … once you get over 35 or 36 students, you cannot do a

lot of hands on, active engagement in the classroom.”

In the two-percent proposal, the department suggests cutting about six graduate teaching assistants, which would save at least $47,000. However, such cuts would have a “major impact on non-STEM and STEM students, upper-division instruction and [the] graduate program,” according to the proposal.

The five- and eight-percent plans could result in a loss of 14 teaching assistant positions, which would reduce spending by at least $107,000. Although, the eight-percent plan also includes a provision to “assign each new graduate student to teach one recitation section,” according to the proposal.

Such a provision is projected to save the department a total of $33,500.

Jaco said the proposed cuts

would create much higher workloads for graduate students because they would be forced to teach much larger sections.

“It’s a big load because you’re trying to take nine to 12 hours of graduate courses while you’re doing this,” Jaco said. “You can make it better for them by putting 30 to 35 students in a section, but if you get up to 45 or 50 students, they’ve got that much more homework to grade.”

Jaco said uncertainty surrounds the upcoming budget for 2017 because the amount of cuts hasn’t been finalized. However, he said it is vital the state invests in education.

“Good education costs money,” Jaco said. “It is expensive, but it’s an investment that the state should be putting their money into.” f o l l o w o c o l ly : @ o c o l ly

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Column: Getting budget proposals an exercise in frustration

Riley Medill S taf f Rep orter

The College of Arts & Sciences asked each of its departments to complete an “Arts & Sciences Budget Reduction Template” for fiscal year 2017. Within the documents, each department made proposals for a two-percent, five-percent and eightpercent cut.

The documents were originally requested from the communications department at Oklahoma State on Feb. 10. The request was made in person via an official open record request form. The request was filed with a deadline to receive the

documents within eight to 10 days.

It took 30 days after the initial request was submitted for the documents to be released.

Feb. 17, Carrie Hulsey-Greene said in a phone call the university and its legal department could not confirm the existence of such documents. The associate director of communications services sent, via email, an explanation as well as a statutory exemption for the documents from the Open Records Act on Feb. 25.

The OSU legal department provided the explanation and statutory exemption. The legal department provided 51 O.S. section 24A.9 of the Oklahoma Open Records Act as a statutory exemption.

Section 24A.9 of the Oklahoma Open Records Act refers directly to “confidential personal notes and person-

ally created materials of a public official making recommendation.”

Along with the statutory exemption, the legal department

A public official may keep confidential his or her personal notes and personally created materials other than departmental budget requests of a public body.”

O.S. section 24a.9 of the oklahoma open records act

However, Section 24A.9 reads: “a public official may keep confidential his or her personal notes and personally created materials other than departmental budget requests of a public body.”

“Departmental budget requests of a public body” are not exempt from the Oklahoma Open Records Act, according to Section 24A.9.

provided an explanation

for the unavailability of the documents.

“To the best of our knowledge, the documents being requested from the departments do not exist yet because no firm budget numbers have been established by the state,” the OSU legal department said, via email. “Thus, OSU and the departments do not know what the budget numbers will be in order to prepare departmental budgets.”

March 3, a response was sent to HulseyGreen, including one

such document that had already been obtained, the proposals for the Media & Strategic Communications department. The response also explained the Arts & Sciences Budget Reduction proposals were not “personal notes or personally created materials.”

Also in the response was a deadline to receive the documents via electronic format by March, 8.

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in an email, “The template you provided was prepared by the College of Arts and Sciences and was not distributed throughout the University.

“The information provided in any of these preliminary working documents will be misleading as the final budgetary numbers for FY17 have not been provided by the

The students at OSU have a right to know what is happening on their campus.”

State of Oklahoma.”

The legal department’s explanation went on to say, “None of the information requested was provided to the Vice President for Administration and Finance by the College of Arts and Sciences.”

March 8, after more attempts at receiving the documents and speaking with OSU’s legal department, the university agreed to release the documents.

Scott Fern said in an email he was not aware of the open records request until March 8. The Deputy General Counsel for OSU said when the requests were first made, administration informed them no

such documents existed.

“Apparently, the documents you reference were internal to the college only,” Fern said. “That is why the central administration provided us with that initial response.”

The documents were made available March 11, in print format. However, a significant amount of information was redacted from the documents. Such as, faculty members’ names and salaries.

Brandee Hancock provided a statutory exemption for the redactions.

The Staff Attorney for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges’ Board of Regents provided Section 24A.7 of the

Oklahoma Open Records Act as means for redaction of information.

Section 24A.7 exempts “Confidential Personnel Records of a Public Body.”

However, Robert Nelon said he doesn’t think that section would allow such redactions to be made.

The First Amendment lawyer said the section provided doesn’t apply to the information redacted.

“It’s hard to see how they can justify redacting a portion of [the information],” Nelon said.

“Unless it is confidential personal information such as a social security number or date of birth that would otherwise be

protected under a different section of the Open Records Act.” This was a simple request, made in person, via email and by an Open Records request form.

By no means should this process have lasted a full month.

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Today’s Birthday (03/30/16). Consider your creative work this year, and make big plans. What’s your gift? Explore and study to find out. A collaborative opportunity inspires you (after 3/23), flowering into a two-year partnership phase (after 9/9). Balance and recharge (after 9/1). A new view develops (after 9/16). Follow dreams together.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Watch for surprises and potential collisions today. Avoid travel or public conversations, and knuckle down to professional tasks. Your performance is being measured. Take on more responsibility, and manage that it gets done. Keep confidences.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Plan a trip over the next few days. Begin a study and research phase. Dream big. Your wanderlust is getting worse. Travel and fun are favored. Book reservations in advance for significant savings.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Handle shared financial documentation today and tomorrow. No stretching the truth now, not even a little. Things get awkward fast. No need to argue the details. Unexpected developments change everything. Be willing to compromise.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Partnering is essential over the next two days. Resolve misunderstandings or breakdowns. Navigate unexpected circumstances by relying on each other. Changing conditions require a coordinated response. If you stumble, get up again.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Focus on your work for the next couple of days. Do the homework you’ve been avoiding. For definitive answers, do the math. Keep your wallet in your pocket.

Avoid risky business. Conditions are unsettled.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Begin a fun two-day phase. Release worries and focus on creating a romantic liaison.

Share sweet moments with family and friends. Roll with complications or mistaken assumptions. Find creative ways to express love.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- The next two days are good for making changes at home. Family matters take priority.

Authorize improvements. Don’t spend on whistles and bells. Invest in durable quality materials. Consider the long haul. Compromise.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Listen to your inner heart song. You’re especially clever and creative for the next few days. You’re entering a learning phase. Hold on to what you have.

Don’t discuss finances yet. Consider options carefully.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Push for new income or extra profits today and tomorrow. An attitude shift may be required. Listen to your elders. Postpone a difficult conversation. Discuss research in private. Reassert your position, with humor.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Take control over a surprising situation. You’re especially strong and confident today and tomorrow. Do business through an agent or representative.

Make a firm offer. If you hit a dead end, turn around.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Get into a two-day pensive phase. Think and plan your upcoming moves. Slow down, and play things cool and quiet. Worries could mess with your dreams. Friends help you make an important connection.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- You work especially well with others over the next two days. Make sensitive requests.

Keep watching for openings toward your objective. Assume responsibility where missing. Accept a challenge. Necessity ushers in invention again.

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