Faculty members at law schools within the University of California system are taking pay cuts of between 4 percent and 10 percent, effective on Sept. 1, under a recently approved furlough plan. The University of California’s Board of Regents, responding to the state’s impending funding cuts, approved the cuts on July 16. The unprecedented emergency plan would require faculty and staff to take between 11 and 26 furlough days during the coming school year. The furloughs are designed to partly offset an anticipated $813 million reduction in the system’s share of the state’s general fund for fiscal years 2008-09 and the fiscal year that began on July 1. That would represent a 20 percent decline from fiscal year 2007-08.
The furloughs and pay cut percentages are graduated and tied to the salaries of the faculty members and staff, which range from $40,000 to $240,000 per year. For instance, a faculty member who makes between $180,001 to $240,000 in annual compensation would be subject to 24 furlough days, or a 9 percent cut in pay. More than 108,000 employees of the UC system will be affected. Faculty members were expected to continue working, notwithstanding the pay cuts, said several deans of UC law schools. – Amanda Bronstad, The National Law Journal
Litigator Takes Career Services Job at University of Virginia
