San Diego
UC San Diego Chancellor Richard Atkinson told his faculty Tuesday that the La Jolla campus, along with the entire nine-campus UC system, faces several tough budget years as a result of state financial woes.
In his annual campus update to the Academic Senate, Atkinson said that UCSD and its sister campuses will nevertheless continue to compare well against other major universities nationwide in faculty recruiting and research potential, because the other institutions are suffering from equal or worse budget problems.
The tough money crunch will, however, mean slower growth in the number of graduate students at the campus. Atkinson wants the number of graduate students to increase from its existing 14% to 20% of the about 20,000 students over the next several years, but the plan requires more funds for hiring new professors and providing graduate fellowships.
The less-than-adequate increases in funding--2% contrasted with a hoped-for 7% this year--also means some building projects will be delayed, he said.
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