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Vol. 3, Issue 12
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
'90-91 Budget Cut $1-Million;
26 Positions Eliminated
Lehigh's resource allocation study, announced
in March of 1989, will reduce the 1990-91 budget
by about $1 million and eliminate 26 administrative
positions, university officials announced last week.
Approximately another million dollars will be
reallocated internally to focus resources more effectively on the primary missions of the university
— education and research.
Sixteen professional and support staff members' jobs will be eliminated effective July 1990 in
the president's office and the university's administrative stems — development and university
relations, student affairs, and finance and administration. Another 10 administrative positions in
these areas that are now vacant will be eliminated
from the budget.
The reduction in staff will be partially offset by
modest growth of personnel in the admissions
office. The net reduction in the 1990-91 budget will
be about 17 positions.
The employees affected were told last week
that every effort will be made to find work for them
at Lehigh before July, and a special severance-pay
plan has been instituted for any individuals not
placed within the university.
"We have agonized over the human effects of
these decisions — but we knew we had tomake
them," said president Peter Likins. "We are
striving for a culture change — one that I believe
will make Lehigh a stronger institution."
"We are trying very hard to achieve our goal
of reducing the percentage rate of growth in tuition
without terminating any employees unnecessarily,
relying on attrition and internal transfer," Likins
said. " We are adopting a severance-pay policy
that may seem more attractive than internal transfer
for some people whose positions are eliminated.
That same severance-pay policy will apply to
everyone in terminated positions."
Edward R. Maclosky, director of human resources, said employees whose jobs are being
eliminated have a good chance of finding employment at Lehigh before July.  "We fill 100 support
staff positions and 50 professional staff positions
each year," he said, "and these people will receive
top priority."
Positions eliminated range from entry-level
clerk to senior-management jobs. To date, the
process has identified positions to be eliminated in
the president's office and the university's administrative stems, which include administration and
finance, development and university relations, and
student affairs. The university currently employs
431 people in these domains.
Restructuring within the academic areas has
not been completed, because "the provost's domain
is more complicated and a lot more dialog has to
take place," Likins explained. The provost's stem
— the university's largest — includes 400 faculty
members and 465 professional and support staff.
"While net reductions in personnel or budget are
not currently anticipated in the provost's domain, it
seems likely that resources will be reallocated here
as well," Likins said.
Elimination of positions and reductions in
various program expenses thus far are expected to
make approximately $1-million available for the
increasing costs of university operations, thus
avoiding the need to pass at least some of those
costs on to students, Likins said.
Lehigh's president announced the resource-
management review process in March and took the
first step by reducing his top-management team
from 12 to 10 (accounting for two of the 26
positions eliminated). He also appointed a visiting
committee on university resource management,
which made its second visit to campus lasi Tuesday
to hear Lehigh present plans for improving the
resource-allocation process.
Severance Pay Policy
Employees in terminated positions who decide to
leave before July 1,1990 or who cannot be
placed in other positions at the university will
receive between four and 52 weeks of severance
pay.
According to the severanceq policy, which is
supported by the Employee Relations Advisory
Committee, employees will receive additional
pay beyond the minimum four weeks according
to the following guidelines:
• one additional week's pay for each full year of
service
• one additional week's pay for every year of
service over 10
• one additional week's pay for each year over
the age of 30 to reflect the increased length of
time it might take employees with greater responsibilities to find a new position.
Lehigh will continue to provide benefits for
these employees during the severance period.
November 21,1989
'Science As A Contact
Sport'
Robert Ballard, the scientist known
as the "Indiana Jones of the ocean,"
will talk on "Exploring the Deep
Frontier" at Lehigh on Thursday, Nov.
30 at 7:30 p.m. '
The talk by Ballard, senior scientist
at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, is sponsored by the Austin
Furst Lecture Series, and will be held
in Packard Laboratory Auditorium.
Ballard has participated in or led
more than 60 deep-sea expeditions,
among them dives that led to finding
the Titanic in 1985 and the Bismarck
in June, both state-of-the-art ships that
set off on maiden voyages never to
return.
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