TSEU-UT Austin-Stop the Cuts

• Actual budget deficit: NONE, budget will actually increase by 2.8%

• UT’s total budget 2009-10: $2,140,000,000

• Proposed cut to instructional budget – Dept of Spanish and Portuguese by fall 2010: 30%

• Number of liberal arts students served by the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, French and Italian: 70%

• General number of graduate students admitted to the Department of History each year: over 20

• Maximum number of graduate students who will be admitted to the Dept of History in 2010: 8

• Proposed amount reallocated by the College of Liberal Arts to new Liberal Arts building (mainly by cuts to lecturers and AI’s): $3,800,000

• Amount of construction put on hold to save the foreign language program: 0

• State funding of UT academic budget by percent in 1970: nearly 85%

• State funding of UT budget by percent in 2010: 16%

• Percent rise in student tuition and fees between 2003 and 2008: 57%

• Rise in budget for administrative jobs that paid at least $200,000 between 2003 and 2008: 40%

• Number of UT employees that the Orange Santa program helped buy children’s Christmas presents for in 2008: 498

• Last time UT staff got an across the board pay raise: 2001

• Number of months that staff salaries have been frozen: 13

• 2010 pay raise for football coach Mack Brown: $2,000,000

• Average number of undergrad classes taught by lecturers that Mack Brown’s raise would fund: 400

• Gross income from athletics in 2008-9: $105,230,260

• Gross expenditures in athletics in 2008-9: $107,283,744

• Proposed $65 per semester fee to fund a new Student Activity Center, per semester: $3,250,000

• Savings from cancelling all informal classes and closing the iconic Cactus Café: $122,000

• Number of students and community residents taking informal classes per year: 25,000

• Maximum proportion of 2010 raises allowed for top faculty retention, gender equity, and pay equity of current faculty: 1/3

• Average difference between average male & female salaries for tenure and tenure-track faculty: $13,000

• Raises by gender cited by provost 2010: 51% women, 36% men (13% unaccounted for)

• Base salary not including benefits paid to university president William Powers in 2008: $577,500

• Number of years Interim ITS Chief Englert worked for the private company Accenture, retiring as senior partner: 22

• Number of children who lost CHIP coverage in Texas due to Accenture incompetence: 200,000

• Number of jobs lost in ITS since September 2009: 70

• Value of UT Endowment lost from August 2008 to July 2009 by UTIMCO: $3,000,000,000

• Bonuses for UTIMCO top executives approved November 2009: $3,400,000

• Texas workforce that was unionized in 2009: 6.1%

• Average hourly wage of non-union worker in Texas 2003-9: $18.39

• Average hourly wage of union worker in Texas 2003-9: $22.13

• Percent of non-union workers with health insurance in Texas 2003-9: 53.1

• Percent of union workers with health insurance in Texas 2003-9: 74.5


UT AUSTIN Contact TSEU Organizers: Jim Branson & Marcin Rusinkiewicz	In light of recent cuts to staff, lecturers, graduate students, informal classes, the iconic Cactus Cafe, the proposed tuition hikes . . . *. . . AND to stress the importance of labor union organizing on our campus:* UT BUDGET PRIORITIES (at a glance)
	• Actual budget deficit: NONE, budget will actually increase by 2.8% • UT’s total budget 2009-10: $2,140,000,000 • Proposed cut to instructional budget – Dept of Spanish and Portuguese by fall 2010: 30% • Number of liberal arts students served by the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, French and Italian: 70% • General number of graduate students admitted to the Department of History each year: over 20 • Maximum number of graduate students who will be admitted to the Dept of History in 2010: 8 • Proposed amount reallocated by the College of Liberal Arts to new Liberal Arts building (mainly by cuts to lecturers and AI’s): $3,800,000 • Amount of construction put on hold to save the foreign language program: 0 • State funding of UT academic budget by percent in 1970: nearly 85% • State funding of UT budget by percent in 2010: 16% • Percent rise in student tuition and fees between 2003 and 2008: 57% • Rise in budget for administrative jobs that paid at least $200,000 between 2003 and 2008: 40% • Number of UT employees that the Orange Santa program helped buy children’s Christmas presents for in 2008: 498 • Last time UT staff got an across the board pay raise: 2001 • Number of months that staff salaries have been frozen: 13 • 2010 pay raise for football coach Mack Brown: $2,000,000 • Average number of undergrad classes taught by lecturers that Mack Brown’s raise would fund: 400 • Gross income from athletics in 2008-9: $105,230,260 • Gross expenditures in athletics in 2008-9: $107,283,744 • Proposed $65 per semester fee to fund a new Student Activity Center, per semester: $3,250,000 • Savings from cancelling all informal classes and closing the iconic Cactus Café: $122,000 • Number of students and community residents taking informal classes per year: 25,000 • Maximum proportion of 2010 raises allowed for top faculty retention, gender equity, and pay equity of current faculty: 1/3 • Average difference between average male & female salaries for tenure and tenure-track faculty: $13,000 • Raises by gender cited by provost 2010: 51% women, 36% men (13% unaccounted for) • Base salary not including benefits paid to university president William Powers in 2008: $577,500 • Number of years Interim ITS Chief Englert worked for the private company Accenture, retiring as senior partner: 22 • Number of children who lost CHIP coverage in Texas due to Accenture incompetence: 200,000 • Number of jobs lost in ITS since September 2009: 70 • Value of UT Endowment lost from August 2008 to July 2009 by UTIMCO: $3,000,000,000 • Bonuses for UTIMCO top executives approved November 2009: $3,400,000 • Texas workforce that was unionized in 2009: 6.1% • Average hourly wage of non-union worker in Texas 2003-9: $18.39 • Average hourly wage of union worker in Texas 2003-9: $22.13 • Percent of non-union workers with health insurance in Texas 2003-9: 53.1 • Percent of union workers with health insurance in Texas 2003-9: 74.5