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Volume 77, Issue 6 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
Oct. 7, 2011
Budget review with Dr. Teague
By Park Baker
Editor in Chief
With Brevard College making cuts in an
attempt to offset a $900,000 budget deficit,
many people attached to the school are
wondering what, or who, is next.
This week. Clarion senior staff met with
Brevard Colleges’ interim president. Dr.
Charlie Teague, to discuss the school’s
budget. Teague told students, staff and faculty
at meetings last week that Brevard College
is operating at a loss. This semester, Brevard
administration had budgeted for an anticipated
633 Full Time Enrolled students, but when a
final head count of enrolled students was
made after the first two weeks of class, 14
fewer than the target number were enrolled.
Roughly 80 percent of the College’s revenue
comes from tuition, room and board.
At an average of $30,000 a year for each of
the 14, that comes out to about $420,000 less
to work with for the school year
That shortfall, coupled with a $300,000
deficit from the previous year and other
unexpected expenses, are what contributed
Eleven students and one faculty member
were inducted into the honor societies
of Alpha Chi and Omicron Delta Kappa
Sept. 16 as part of BC’s Family Weekend
celebration.
Four students were formally inducted into
Brevard’s chapter of Alpha Chi: Jamison
Alan Adams, Jordan Ashley Box, Leighia
Mischelle Eggett and Daniel Flunter Tuttle.
As part of the ceremony, they received a
commemorative pin from a faculty sponsor
Following the Alpha Chi ceremony, seven
students were then inducted into Brevard’s
circle of Omicron Delta Kappa. They are
Tyler Clay Biggs, Vemtasia Mordsha Finley,
Caitlin Kable York Flubbard, Leslie Ann
Flylton, Kaitlyn Margaret McConomy,
Jennifer Collins Nyman and Alexander
Marcus Tompkins.
In addition to the student inductees, faculty
member Thomas Bell—associate professor
of religious studies and current advisor for
to the $900,000 deficit, Teague said.
The Board of Trustees had made clear that
administrators needed to balance the budget.
To achieve that goal, the administration was
able to cut approximately $325,000 from
operating expenses and $375,000 from
salaries and benefits. Specifically, the budget
cuts were achieved by the following steps:
• 11 currently vacant positions would
remain unfilled;
• 8 positions were eliminated from the
current budget;
• 12 employees’ working hours were
reduced to less than full-time;
• effective Sept. 30, the College temporarily
ceased matching contributions to
employees’ retirement plans for this
fiscal year;
• senior College administrators (the four
vice presidents and both presidents,
interim president Teague and David
Joyce, who will take over Jan. 1) agreed
to 5- to 10-percent pay cuts.
Teague elaborated on some of the currently
vacant positions the College was leaving
unfilled, which include athletic director, a
Alpha Chi—was inducted as a member of
ODK as well.
Alpha Chi membership is the highest
across-curriculum academic honor on most
college campuses. Founded in 1922, it has
chapters in more than 300 colleges and
universities across the United States. At
Brevard, membership is limited to juniors
and seniors whose cumulative GPA is in the
top 10 percent of their class, which translates
into a GPA of 3.8 or higher
ODK is a nationally recognized society that
honors leadership in academics, athletics,
service, communications and the arts.
Founded in 1914 at Washington and Lee
University, ODK aims to recognize student,
faculty, and administrative leadership gifts
and honor them publicly.
More than 230 ODK circles have been
established at colleges and universities in
the United States, and circles exist in several
other nations as well.
librarian position, music director, assistant
music professor, assistant dean of students,
a biology professor, a community education
position, and an English department position
unfilled when one faculty member assumed
a teacher licensure position in the Social
Sciences division.
Teague stressed that these positions were
unfilled before he came to Brevard.
Most of the recent controversy, however,
has been over the positions eliminated to
balance the budget. While several of those
positions have been made public simply due
to the public nature of the jobs in question,
Teague told the Clarion that he cannot
disclose which other positions have been
eliminated, nor which employees have had
their hours reduced, by request of the Board
of Trustees.
“We had a press release written up last week
telling the community who lost their jobs, but
the Board felt that (we) shouldn’t embarrass
these folks,” Teague said.
He refrained from calling the recent cuts
a “budget crisis.” In meetings with various
constituencies on campus last week, Teague
pointed out that despite the painfulness of
some of the cuts, the College was able to
avoid having to cut any academic programs
See "Budget review," page 2
In this issue...
Campus News:
Doris Goodwin 2
Steve Jobs timeline 2
CAB 3
What's happenin' on campus 3
Opinion:
TV review 4
Kruger Brothers 8
Arts & Life:
Taming of the Shrew 5
Comic by Karam Boeshaar 6
Campus garden 6
Cafeteria Creations 6
Sports:
Cross country 7
IVIountain biling 7
Odds and Ends:
Thisweel in history 8
Alpha Chi, ODK induct new members