The University of Connecticut says a $10.3-million cut in its state appropriation will not make it abandon its highly touted plan to hire nearly 300 professors.
“Things are very tight here. It’s a tough economy,” said Susan Herbst, the university’s president, in an interview on Thursday. “But we’re committed to hiring new faculty because it’s the key to building an even better research university. Without the intellectual firepower of our faculty, we can’t go forward.”
The university announced last December that it planned to create 275 tenure-track positions, many in research-oriented fields, over the next four years. It was an unusual move for a state university in the midst of a sluggish economy that has seen widespread retrenchment at other public colleges.
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