Senior Vice President and Provost Jim Bean announced to University faculty Thursday that he volunteered to take five furlough days during the current fiscal year. President Dave Frohnmayer volunteered to take six unpaid days off, and Bean is encouraging other members of the administration to take four.
Their decision to volunteer furlough days was announced to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education during its meeting Friday, following Oregon University System Chancellor George Pernsteiner’s mandate that each campus encourage its leaders to take voluntary furlough days.
According to Bean’s e-mail, “In response to numerous requests by faculty and staff to participate in the solution of these challenges, we are developing a mechanism for others to volunteer support.” Information on how faculty can take furlough days will be available in April.
The classified staff union has already been asked to take furlough days during the next two fiscal years by the OUS and Gov. Ted Kulongoski.
The intent of the administration’s, and possibly the faculty’s, furlough days is to mitigate some of the impact from the $6.9 million reduction in state budget contribution to the University announced Feb. 20.
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