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Budget deficit forces holiday closings, furloughs at CSU

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By Christopher Magan, Staff Writer 9:46 PM Friday, October 15, 2010

Central State University will shut down during the holidays, furlough employees and freeze hiring and pay in order to make up a $2.8 million budget deficit.

CSU officials announced their strategy Friday for dealing with the shortfall they say is caused by a dip in freshmen students and the delay of state funding.

“A part of the strategy is to make sure students are not affected in any way,” said Fran Robinson, university spokeswoman. The campus closure will occur after the semester ends.

The university will close the day before Thanksgiving and for 13 days during the holidays, reopening Jan. 3, Robinson said. Employees will go without pay for eight of those days.

Non-union employees will not get raises in 2011.

Earlier this month, the Ohio Board of Regents announced the state intended to delay the last payment of funding for instruction until the next fiscal year. That could cost CSU $417,112.

“We can’t cut our way to financial health,” CSU President John W. Garland said in a statement.

CSU is lagging behind a state initiative set for the school, called “Speed to Scale,” that hoped to grow enrollment to more than 6,000 students by 2017. Total enrollment is roughly 2,500 students this year.

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