The University of Massachusetts Medical School must cut about $2 million from its budget by July 1, according to Michael F. Collins, the school’s chancellor.
The University of Massachusetts system, which has five campuses and an online division, has to cut $100 million out of its collective budget by July 1, according to President Jack Wilson, and there will very likely be additional cuts for fiscal year 2010.
Wilson addressed the UMass Board of Trustees at their meeting today at UMass Medical School in Worcester, and asked individual chancellors from the five campuses to outline where the cuts will be made.
The Worcester campus will cut about $2 million by not filling new posts, using development funds for capital operations, being more efficient in its energy use, reducing normal facilities maintenance, reducing IT equipment purchases and consolidating management in its Commonwealth Medicine program, Collins said.
The Amherst campus has to cut a little more than $11 million, and Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell must all cut around $5 million. Those campuses are laying off or not filling as many as 50 teaching positions each, while taking a wide variety of other measures.
Wilson told the trustees that with more cuts coming, the UMass system will almost surely have to raise tuition and fees.
