UC Med Schools Poppin’ Out All Over!
The article below deals mainly with cutbacks at an adjunct Palm Desert campus of UC-Riverside. But note the last sentence. Merced ain’t alone in grand plans. Local UCR campus slashes budget by 40 percent: Executive director, five administrators laid off (excerpt) Michelle Mitchell • The Desert Sun • October 30, 2010 Full article at http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=201010300321 The executive director of the University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert campus, and five other employees were laid off effective Monday, the school reported Friday. The cutbacks, which represented 40 percent of the graduate center’s budget, should not impact academic programs and were caused by…