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6* • The Red and Black • Tuesday, September 18. 1990
University funds, reputation growing cuts
By AL DIXON
Staff Writer
If the 8 percent increase in fed
eral research grants received in
1990 is any indication, the Univer
sity is gaining national respect as a
research institution.
The amount of money received
by researchers at the University in
the form of federal and private
grants reached an all-time high of
$57.4 million in the 1990 fiscal
year. That total is up from the
$53.1 million recieved in 1989.
‘This 8 percent increase in fed
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nitely gaining national respect as a
prominent research institute,” said
Joe Key, vice president for Univer
sity research. ‘The researchers
here are beating out researchers
from all over the country to win
these federal grants, which speaks
highly of our staff.
‘This 8 percent increase comes
at a time when federal research
dollars are on the decline, which
makes the statistic even more re
markable,” Key said.
He said the National Institute of
Health and the National Science
Foundation, two prominent
sources of federal research
funding, significantly decreased
grants awarded this year.
Michael Moriarty, associate vice
president for research, credits the
research staff for the increased
funding.
‘The fact that the University of
Georgia continues to increase its
share of federal funding despite
the stiff competition is a reflection
of the excellent quality of the
staff,” he said.
There is no question in
my mind that this
increase means that
our status as a
research university is
growing.
The University currently ranks
25th nationally among research in
stitutions in funds devoted to re
search and first among
Southeastern research institu
tions.
“Our national rank is a remark
able statistic because almost every
institute ahead of us is including
grants received by its medical or
engineering school, which the Uni-
versi > of Georgia does not have.”
The money received by the Uni
versity comes in the form of grants
given to individual researchers.
Cenetics Professor William Tim-
beriake received three such grants
this year.
“Very little funding for research
comes from the University,” Tim-
berlake said, “so each researcher
here must compete with other re
searchers across the country for
the limited number of grants out
there.”
To fund a project, the researcher
must present a proposal to the Uni
versity’s Research Foundation,
which then sends the proposal to
federal offices in Washington, D.C.
“Right now the researchers here
are doing most things right, which
is reflected in the increase in fed
eral funding,” Timberlake said,
'There is no question in my mind
that this increase means that our
status as a research university is
growing.”
The largest sources of federal
funding were the U.S. Department
of Energy and the National Insti
tute of Health, each presenting re
searchers at the University with
more than $11 million.
Private grants also contribute to
the research funds. The largest in
dustry-sponsored grant was a
$540,000 reward donated by Gold
Kist, Inc.
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class size for fall quarter has in
creased.
“When a freshman English class
size is increased from 17 to 21, as is
happening, the learning environ
ment is hurt for both teacher and
students,” he said.
It’s also becoming more difficult
for students to get the classes they
need, James said.
The other schools and colleges in
the University are also having
trouble making ends meet. Offi
cials from the College of Education,
the College of Journalism and
Mass Communication and the
Graduate and Law Schools ex
pressed similar plans to meet the
demands of the budget cut.
Graduate School Dean Gordhan
Patel said, “Our plan for meeting
the new budget consists of cuts in
three basic areas — we plan to re
duce the amount of money spent on
supplies, defer the purchases of
new equipment and leave nones
sential vacated positions tempo
rarily open."
Law School Dean Ronald El
lington is making budget cuts sim
ilar to Patel’s.
‘These cuts are tough, especially
since the possibility of further cuts
in the near future is quite strong,”
he said.
News of the proposed budget cut
first reached the University in
mid-June when Harris sent a
memo to all state agency heads
warning that there would have to
be some cuts made in the budget
for the new fiscal year.
In this memo, Harris said, ‘The
revenue collections for fiscal year
1990 will be less than our revenue
estimate. Accordingly, I need your
assistance in postponing all
planned fiscal year 1991 expendi-
tures possible until we can better
assess the projected collectings.”
In his June 22 memo to all presi
dents of Georgia universities, Uni
versity System Chancellor H. Dean
Propst finalized these projected
budget cuts and placed the fol
lowing guidelines into effect for all
units of the University System of
Georgia:
• Spending on equipment, com
puter system enhancements, and
other such one-time outlays should
be deferred.
• Expenditures for contracts,
travel, printing, publications and
postage should be restricted to a
minimum.
• Vacant positions should be
filled only if they are immediately
critical to the institution's opera
tion. , ,, .
• All expenditures for Univer
sity improvements must be placed
on hold.
• Fifty percent of major repairs
and renovations also will be placed
on hold.
• All matching funds for equip
ment will be placed on hold.
Although Knapp responded to
the enforced cuts by leaving the
budgetary decisions in individual
University departments up to the
respective department heads, he
himself decided what University
wide funds would be cut.
Among the hardest hit of these
funds were the Quality Im
provement Program and the Re
pairs and Renovations Program,
both of which were cut in half, and
the matching funds account for
new equipment, which was com
pletely eliminated.
The last time the University ex
perienced a budget cut was in
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