Dale AskeyApr 19, 2023
I've been in academia for a long time so have seen budget cuts before. What we've experienced here in Alberta in the last three years was still shocking. This graph from Alex Usher's blog really puts it out there visually. Full post: https://higheredstrategy.com/provincial-budgets-2023-24/
Show threadDale AskeyApr 19, 2023
Yes, the province reduced funding by 31% (as Usher puts it, "horrifying," but not as bad as the conservative government had said they would do) and did it over three years, not five. They levied a greater cut at the U of Alberta than any other institution.
Show threadDale Askey
Perhaps the most dispiriting part about this graph is that despite the fact that the province is currently seeing record oil and gas royalty revenue that has them billions of dollars in surplus that they continue to cut our funding.
Apr 19, 2023 at 8:50pmWeb