Mirror - Vol. 37, No. 10 - November 16, 2011

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THE WMlRROR
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The Independent Student Newspaper
of Fairfield University
The Reflection of Fairfield 9 Down, How Many More Will Go?
$300,000.00 annual salary
annual salary
$214,484.00
Who's Next?
"With respect to the budget shortfall
and resulting layoffs, I have substan-tial
concerns that at a time in which
we would have expected an adminis-trative
reorganization that resulted
in a leaner structure of highly paid
administrators, the administration
instead increased the number of high
paying vice president positions.
In short, whereas staff are
being laid off, we are
adding highly paid
administrative positions"
-Richard DeWitt,
Professor at Fairfield & President of the
University's Faculty Welfare Committee.
FIVE
$255,650.00 annual salary
annual salary
$193,202.00
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Photo Illustration by: Elizabeth Koubek/The Mirror
These numbers were collected from the most recently released 990 forms from the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Depicted are four of the top paid individuals at Fairfield: President FatherVon Arx (top left),
Vice President of Advancement Stephanie Frost (Top Right), Professor of Fine Arts Orin Grossman (bottom left), and Vice President of Administration and Student Affairs Mark Reed (bottom right).
BY ELIZABETH KOUBEK
NEWS EDITOR
For a second time, members
of Fairfield University's staff have
been given a double dose of bad
news: they will lose their job at the
University and they are one of the
few considered non-essential.
Back in 2009, Fairfield an-nounced
they would be making
31 layoffs as a way to reduce the
budget by 5 percent. Now in the
past week, Fairfield University has
decided again to cut a number
of different staff members in an
attempt to remedy the $4.3 million
budget gap this fiscal year.
"Whenever anybody faces a
budget gap... there are two ways
of dealing with it: increase your
revenues, or try to decrease your
expense,"said Fr. Von Arx in the
past Mirror article Fairfield Fac-ing
$4.3 Million Budget Gap.The
University took this advice and
decreased their financial expenses
through staff positions.
Although no one will confirm
the exact number ofjobs that were
cut, different staff members from
the Quick Center for the Arts, the
Photography Department and the
Print Shop were affected. Some of
the targeted employees have been
offered early retirement options
and have several weeks to decide.
Pending these decision no official
final tally of individuals cut from the
University has been announced.
According to Rama Sudhakar,
vice president of marketing and
communications, "In order to
achieve its strategic goals in a fis-cally
responsible manner, Fairfield
University has taken a number of
steps to address the financial chal-lenges
it faces."
Sudhakar said that among the
different measures taken. Fair-field
will be working on: struc-tural
re-organization and budget
reductions across all University
divisions, the implementation
of a voluntary retirement incen-tive
program, the elimination of a
number of open positions and a
small workforce reduction.
Richard DeWitt, philosophy
professor at Fairfield and President
of Fairfield University's Welfare Com-mittee
said,"I am deeply committed
to Fairfield and to doing what I can
to move the University in a better
direction. But in the past few years I
and other faculty have become deeply
concerned about the direction in
which Fairfield is moving."
DeWitt noted varied concerns,
such as staff being laid off so that
the University can add highly paid
administrative positions. Also, the
salaries of the highest paid admin-istrators
increased at extraordinary
rates while faculty salaries have
barely kept up with cost of living.
And lastly, the administration has
been losing sight of Fairfield's mis-sion
statement which says, "At the
same time it [Fairfield University]
seeks to develop a greater sense of
community within itself, a sense that
LAY OFF!
Connecticut Post/Brian A. Pounds
Cooley Returns Home
SEE'STAGS DROP THE BALL' 20
ThinkYou're Living on the Beach? ThinkAgain.
BY RICHARD O'CONNOR
STAFF WRITER
At last Wednesday's Off-Cam-pus
Boarder Experience Forum,
led by Dr.Thomas Pellegrino, Vice
President of Student Affairs, with
assistance from Karen Donoghue,
Dean of Students, and Ophelie
Rowe-Allen, Director of Residence
Life, students learned that the
number of students to be allowed to
become off-campus boarders will
be substantially lower next year.
Coming down from the cur-rent
number of 304 off-campus
boarders (OCBs), next year's
HOUSING ! HUGE 5
Photo Illustration: Tom McKiver/The Mirror
One of the current houses up for rent to the seniors of Fairfield on the beach.