UM, College Park plans to freeze hiring, reduce its staffing
The University of Maryland, College Park will freeze hiring and reduce its staff through retirements and possible layoffs as it attempts to cut $14.6 million from its 2010 budget, President C.D. "Dan" Mote wrote Monday evening in an e-mail to the university community.
The budget reductions will be part of the state university system's $37.8 million contribution to $281 million in cuts ordered by Gov. Martin O'Malley to begin covering a massive shortfall for this fiscal year.
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