Anyone interested in hearing how Virginia Tech is preparing to confront looming budgetary woes will have a chance to ask questions and hear from President Charles Steger on the situation twice this week.
The two "town hall" style meetings, open to the general public, are scheduled for today at 4 p.m. and Wednesday at 11 a.m., both in Burruss Hall Auditorium.
"President Steger is keeping the university community informed of what the current budgetary situation is, which is not good at all," said Larry Hincker, Tech spokesman.
Tech faces cuts of $40 million of state appropriations as Virginia attempts to correct a multi-billion dollar budgetary shortfall.
Provost Mark McNamee and Chief Financial Officer Dwight Shelton will accompany Steger.
"The president is going to try to contextualize what the situation is with respect to the funding from the state and the amount of money that we've lost, and the possible implications of that for programs ... (and) for personnel," Hincker said. "At this point, of course, we don't yet know what the actual dollar amount is going to be. We know what the governor has proposed in his budget, but that's a somewhat fluid situation because state revenue collections are projected to go down even further."
Tech has held similar town hall events in the past. For example, Steger has done budgetary meetings before, when Tech had huge budget reductions under Gov. Mark Warner's administration.
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