Columns:: Hire demands: Tuition hike pays for more faculty in high-demand majors

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Columns::July 21, 2003

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Hire demands
Tuition hike pays for more faculty in high-demand majors

By Chuck Toney
ctoney@uga.edu

The university will be able to hire 50 faculty and expand enrollment in some high-demand areas as a result of the 15 percent

tuition increase approved by the board of regents for the 2003-04 academic year. Deans may begin hiring faculty immediately, although the hiring is likely to be spread throughout the academic year. There are currently 200 faculty vacancies at UGA.
The tuition increase means additional net revenue of $6 million for the upcoming academic year. President Michael F. Adams has allotted approximately $4 million to the office of the provost for hiring faculty, and approximately $1 million each to the offices of the senior vice presidents for external affairs and finance and administration.
“While there was not much additional revenue to distribute around campus, I believe the budget group developed a plan which will significantly impact our teaching loads for this fall and beyond,” says Adams. “This is the first good budget news we have had in almost two years.”
“President Adams has stated throughout these budget difficulties that faculty hiring is of paramount importance,” says Provost Arnett Mace. “He has followed through on that commitment with this allotment of available funds. This administration has its priorities in the right order.”
The additional faculty lines, according to Mace, will allow UGA to increase enrollment in high-demand areas such as business, graphic design, early childhood education, engineering, music education, consumer economics, fashion merchandising, furnishings and interiors, and veterinary medicine.

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