The colleges of Nursing and Business Administration released their 10-percent budget-cut proposals on Wednesday.
The nursing college's proposal includes no layoffs, while the business college's proposal includes five - one faculty member who would not be eligible for tenure and four staff members.
The nursing college will not cut its undergraduate program, but it might reduce undergraduate enrollment over time because of possible cuts to temporary faculty, said college spokeswoman Tracy Wright.
Under its proposal, the college would cut $813,000, mainly by eliminating eight positions that will be vacant. Seven of those are professorships and one is a staff position in the alumni office. Also, a vacant, full-time librarian position will become a half-time position.
These changes will save about $609,000.
The college would also cut funding for temporary faculty and student assistants by about $119,000, Wright said. Five temporary faculty positions and an unknown number of student assistants could be eliminated.
The college would also stop paying its portion of funds to the Interdisciplinary Family Health program, a program for beginning health science students, which would save $25,000.
The remainder, $61,000, would be saved by eliminating the reimbursements clinical faculty receive for work-related cell phone use and by reducing travel for faculty, administrators and staff.
Wright said the college's 2007-2008 state-funded budget was about $12.9 million. The college received a cut of about $500,000 this year, according to Alligator archives.
The business college's $2.3 million proposal includes five potential layoffs.
The layoffs would be in the Bureau of Economic & Business Research, which would be cut by about $407,000.
Only about $2.1 million of the total cut has been specified, however, said Andy McCollough, senior associate dean of the college.
The bulk of the money, about $1.4 million, in the specified portion of the proposal will be recouped by replacing state funds with other money, including donations to the college through the UF Foundation and funds from programs that generate their own revenue, like online degree programs.
About $255,000 will be saved by reclaiming unused benefits after retirements and resignations and by spending less on technology, which could mean fewer equipment replacements and less technical support, UF spokeswoman Janine Sikes said.
All colleges and administrative units were asked to submit 10-percent budget cut proposals, which are due by April 1, in anticipation of a possible university-wide budget cut of $72 million to $75 million in 2009-2010.
