College of Science

Email from Leon Phillips in response to the AUS submission:

Dear Jack -

The AUS submission needs to go straight back to the drawing board because the projected $2M shortfall in the College of Science budget is not a cumulative amount that reaches $2M in a couple of years, it is an annual amount that will be cut from the College budget every year from a couple of years hence.



The College finances have almost no room for slack right now, so this is a much more serious matter than you appear to realise. Think of it in terms of about 20 full-professor's salaries.

Once you have got that point straight in your mind, I think you need to undertake a serious effort to get the VC to reconsider the planned increase.
In my opinion that might be best achieved by causing a public outrage sufficient to make Council issue a cease-and-desist order.

The managerial decision to purchase a supercomputer without any academic case being made is a particularly sickening piece of bad timing that might usefully be exploited by AUS.

Cheers
Leon