A story in Inside Iowa State, the faculty-staff newsletter, outlines budget changes in CALS and each of the other ISU colleges.
More: http://www.iastate.edu/Inside/2010/0708/deans.php

To: CALS Faculty and Staff

From: Dean Wendy Wintersteen

During the past several weeks, there have been several announcements regarding faculty and staff benefits, salary increases and the new retirement incentive option, RIO3. Here is a recap:

First, the university's contribution to employees’ TIAA-CREF accounts will be restored to the full 10% on July 1. The contribution was reduced to 8% last fall to help meet the mid-year budget reduction.

To: CALS Faculty, Staff and Students

FROM: Dean Wendy Wintersteen

On Monday, I submitted to the office of the Executive Vice President and Provost our preliminary planning report on how we will address budget reductions for FY11. Our report will be available in the near future on the Budget Updates website, which is linked on our CALS homepage.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/Experiment Station and Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) Extension have developed preliminary FY11 budget plans to address reductions totaling $3,317,570 million — an integrated CALS/Experiment Station cut of $3,019,896 plus cuts totaling $297,674 allocated to ANR Extension by ISU Extension.

I want to provide an update on our state FY11 budget that begins on July 1, 2010. Much remains uncertain. The full picture for FY11 may not emerge until the legislature adjourns, which could be late this month.

Long-range Personnel Planning

TO: CALS Faculty and Staff

I’ve appreciated the comments and suggestions received regarding the budget from conversations, e-mail, phone calls and the two open forums we held with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which were attended by several hundred people.

January 26 CALS-LAS Open Forum cancelled

The questions and comments can be downloaded as a PDF

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dean Michael Whiteford
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Dean Wendy Wintersteen
January 14, 2010—3 p.m. Sun Room, Memorial Union

Download a PDF of the Jan. 14 CALS-LAS Open Forum presentation.

Dear CALS Faculty, Staff and Students,

I am writing to update you on budget planning discussions. First, thank you for your participation in this process through departmental discussions, open forums and individual input via emails, phone calls and personal conversations.