If they do not improve the budget, how will the school continue to operate? There will have to be cuts.
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They will keep asking us to do more and more with less. That's why the best and brightest employees have left or are leaving. Those remaining have the lowest morale I've seen in over 25 years here. Thankfully, Carruthers is out, Throneberry is gone (though her successor is incompetent), and hopefully, Howard will be gone too. They have driven NMSU into the ground, reduced staff even though studies said they weren't bloated, replaced women in leadership positions with men, and centralized to the point that customer service to our students and faculty has DECREASED. Faculty have much higher loads of teaching and advising, so of course, research is declining. Deans roles have diminished to the detriment of academics, so the clowns Carruthers and Howard can control everything through fear and intimidation of job loss. The Regents are worthless-more concerned about their standing in the local community (i.e. profit and loss bottom line) than doing the right thing. The governor held higher ed funding hostage, but the Regents are purportedly going to hire as the next president. It's not working people, but just like the banks, NMSU is too big to fail? So yes, expect more layoffs under the bumbling administration.