The Mail Tribune has the story, here:
“We’re working our way through it all,” Cullinan told a meeting of the Ashland Rotary Club Thursday. “There’s a lot of turmoil right now and people are feeling very stressed and sensitive. The Senate has the ability to state their level of confidence in me and I can understand it.”
In November, Cullinan announced that the university would begin a retrenchment process that allows the administration to cut programs and eliminate professors without breaching the faculty union contract. She has said SOU will need to trim from $3.3 million to $5 million from its budget over the next three years.
Cullinan said she was working with David Carter, president of the Faculty Senate, to address staff concerns.
“It’s a challenging and difficult time,” she conceded.
In the vote, results of which were announced Wednesday, 63 percent of the faculty expressed no confidence in Cullinan, while 71 and 76 percent cast no-confidence votes against Vice President of Finance and Administration Craig Morris and Provost Jim Klein, respectively.
Thank goodness UO has an administration in which the faculty feels strong confidence!
SOU has communicated NONE of these facts and cuts to parents of current students. Even when I went down to Ashland and ask for confirmation of impact on my daughters majors (Psychology & Criminology) and was lied to that “oh of course not they are our strongest majors”. The next week when my daughter went to register for the next term (starts in 2 weeks) 5 professors from both departments were let go.
Major mess ups with this terms billing, students being told housing will at least double next year and NO word to the parents paying for this education. NO CONFIDENCE, we are strongly considering our daughter transferring.