Daily Targum: Students, faculty voice concerns about budget cuts

University students and faculty joined forces last night to present their views on Gov. Chris Christie’s budget proposal to government officials, hoping the severity of the cuts could be undone.
In a budget forum, sponsored by the Union of Rutgers Administrators-American Federation of Teachers, professors and students showed their concern for Christie’s proposal in front of legislative directors and assembly representatives at the Graduate Student Lounge on the College Avenue campus.

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By Devin Sikorski, Associate News Editor
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

URA-AFT President Lucye Millerand said since 2001, funding from the state decreased 29 percent and is now worse with the current state of the economy.

“We rank at the bottom of state support per capita, that is per student, for higher education,” she said. “New Jersey wants a Massachusetts workforce on a Mississippi budget and that just doesn’t work.”