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50 jobs eliminated as University of Missouri cuts hit cleaning, maintenance operations
Columbia Daily Tribune ^ | Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 11:54 am | RUDI KELLER

Posted on 04/12/2016 7:43:15 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

The University of Missouri will be shaggier and dirtier and faculty will be responsible for taking their own trash to dumpsters under the plan for cutting 50 jobs in campus operations detailed in an email memo sent Friday by Vice Chancellor Gary Ward.

Landscaping operations will be cut back so sidewalk edges are trimmed no more than twice a year and only in the most visible locations, Ward wrote. After Saturday football games, the debris left by tailgaters will not be picked up until Monday, he wrote.

Custodial staff no longer will clean or remove trash or recyclables from offices, Ward wrote.

“This frees up custodians to assist with recycling, which, previously, has been a volunteer effort,” Ward wrote.

The plan to save $5.47 million in the MU Operations division that employs 842 people exempts the MU Police Department and MU Environmental Health and Safety. Ward warned it likely means slower response time for maintenance issues, less overtime and slower snow removal.

In the email, Ward warned that “we will be unable to sustain the level of service for which you have become accustomed. I do not anticipate that changes beginning July 1, 2016, will inhibit the academic mission at Mizzou, nor is it my intention for that to ever happen.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: education; mizzou
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The Columbia campus is trying to cover $22 million of an expected $32.5 million shortfall because of declining enrollment and new commitments such as the new Division of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, spokesman Christian Basi said.

1 posted on 04/12/2016 7:43:15 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

The spiral down begins.

Leftists are like cholera or dysentary. And they will produce a lot of sh** before they kill you.


2 posted on 04/12/2016 7:45:11 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Pan_Yan

Get the useless liberal arts, history, English, and psychology professors to do some cleanup.


3 posted on 04/12/2016 7:45:44 PM PDT by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: Pan_Yan

Africa


4 posted on 04/12/2016 7:45:45 PM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: Pan_Yan

I’m sure the snowflakes will make every effort to help keep the campus in tip-top shape.


5 posted on 04/12/2016 7:46:11 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Pan_Yan

did they cut the bedbug buster job for the diversity office?


6 posted on 04/12/2016 7:46:21 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: Pan_Yan

Yes, losses from declining enrollment must be substantial. You reap what you sow.


7 posted on 04/12/2016 7:46:51 PM PDT by MNGal
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and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

8 posted on 04/12/2016 7:47:32 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: moovova

If I’m reading between the lines here, there aren’t many snowflakes left - and those “others” don’t volunteer...


9 posted on 04/12/2016 7:47:51 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Pan_Yan; GraceG; LUV W
I Love it!

Every Freeper should Read this Article, Then Watch this Documentary, then Read this Article Again.

This Documentary is like reading the Communist Manifesto, it should bring you to your Boiling Point! But, don't let it get to you, just sit back and watch How these lefty students think. Then you will have better understanding and appreciation of the aftermath reading this article again.

I felt a little less naive after I viewed it.

Field of Vision - Concerned Student 1950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJLvMxVFdQ

10 posted on 04/12/2016 7:48:34 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Everyone Does Know that after the Last Brokered Republican Convention, They Lost, Right?)
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To: Pan_Yan

those groups just keep nagging and nagging. Nag, nag, nag. All day long


11 posted on 04/12/2016 7:49:02 PM PDT by ghosthost
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To: Pan_Yan

part of this is the melissa click effect.


12 posted on 04/12/2016 7:49:34 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Pan_Yan

You mean the “share the wealth” professors wouldn’t give up a little of their own pay to help these workers out?

What lessons are these professors teaching with their selfish, greedy behavior?


13 posted on 04/12/2016 7:49:46 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: biggredd1

All gubmint universities need to be scaled down to just Business/Economics, Engineering, and Physical and Biological Sciences. Rest of the useless departments need to take a hike or raise money on their own. Way too many “sociology” and “arts and music” graduates wasting tax payers’ money.


14 posted on 04/12/2016 7:50:56 PM PDT by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: Pan_Yan

Melissa click “doesn’t accept” her firing.


15 posted on 04/12/2016 7:51:24 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Well, I shouldn't be so happy I guess.

Despite the inconvenience it causes the lefty professors, the people who are losing their jobs are probably some local fella who mops the floors and vacuums at 11:00 P.M. :P

People who have nothing to do with Mizzou's stupidity.

16 posted on 04/12/2016 7:52:14 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Everyone Does Know that after the Last Brokered Republican Convention, They Lost, Right?)
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To: Pan_Yan

Soon to be the “University of Misery”...


17 posted on 04/12/2016 7:55:48 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Bible prophesy comes true ... Hillary Benghazi Clinton is the "Whore of Babylon")
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To: Pan_Yan

Fifty paychecks closer to a free college education.


18 posted on 04/12/2016 7:57:15 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: Pan_Yan

If this was a sane university, they’d keep the essential custodial jobs and cut the ridiculous leftist “study programs” that have been there since the ‘70s.


19 posted on 04/12/2016 7:58:29 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far.)
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Schadenfreud at its best!!!
20 posted on 04/12/2016 7:59:12 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
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