Citing the state’s fiscal crisis, the president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system has implemented a temporary hiring freeze across all 17 campuses and the system office for at least the remainder of the fiscal year.
Mark E. Ojakian, CSCU president, said in a statement the spending control measures are necessary given its projected shortfall for the current fiscal year and the financial pressures being exerted on all CSCU institutions.
Last week, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy took away $1.8 million from the budget for the Board of Regents for Higher Education. The CSCU system took the brunt of those cuts with a $1.6 million reduction in its budget, as well as $222,377 for the Transform CSCU. The latter was a controversial program implemented by former CSCU President Gregory Gray.
