About 10 days ago, the Commissioner of Higher Education, Dr. Robert Stein, distributed the attached memo to presidents and chancellors. In it, he describes what he sees for the Fiscal Year 2012 budget and suggests some options for addressing the budget cuts.

• Missouri Fiscal Challenges and Higher Education*
  January 22, 2010, memo from Dr. Robert B. Stein, Commissioner of Higher Education

As a followup to the memo, Paul Wagner, deputy commissioner of the Missouri Department of Higher Education, will speak to the Missouri State campus community on Monday, February 8, 2010, at 3 p.m. in the Plaster Student Union Theater.  We hope that this meeting will serve to inform and provide a basis for further discussion as we prepare annual budgets and undertake a new long-range planning process.

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The Office of Human Resources conducted information sessions for the Faculty Retirement Incentive Plan on January 15, 2010. As a follow up to these sessions, they have developed a set of Questions and Answers to assist faculty considering this program.

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Our fourth town hall meeting on the budget will be from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday, February 24, in the Plaster Student Union Theater.  I hope you can attend.

At  this meeting, Provost Belinda McCarthy will chair a panel of academic deans who will talk about how they plan to deal with their portion of the anticipated budget reduction in Fiscal Year 2011.

As always, there will be time for questions and discussion following the presentations.

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