UNL ag communications unit victim of budget cuts
March 10, 2010 by Ken Anderson
Filed under Events/Organizations, News
The ag communications unit of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s (UNL) Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources has fallen victim to the budget-cutting knife.
Ag communications—officially called Communications and Information Technology (CIT)—will be eliminated as part of a three-point-six million dollar budget cut announced Tuesday by UNL chancellor Harvey Perlman. The unit provides news releases, radio and TV programs, newsletters, web support and other information services for ag programs at UNL.
According to the Lincoln Journal-Star, eight of the 18 CIT employees will be laid off, with the others likely moved elsewhere within the university. Some of the services provided by the ag communications unit will be picked up by the University Communications and Information Services departments. Perlman says that the delivery of education information by UNL Extension and other ag programs will be preserved and reassigned to other divisions.
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I’d wager that if Ben Nelson could make a buck off of it – special funding for Nebraska would come thru. Just my opinion mind you based on prior dealings by ol’Ben.
Take a look at the salaries of UNL Chancelors and Deans, like the Dean of Extension. Eliminate a few of these and you can keep many more employed and get much more productive work accomplished.