The College of Medicine released their 10 percent budget cut proposal late Wednesday, which would cut about $3.8 million and result in the layoffs of seven faculty and staff positions, according to UF spokeswoman Janine Sikes.
Other proposals were also obtained Thursday, including the College of Design, Construction & Planning, the College of Journalism and the College of Dentistry.
In the College of Medicine's proposal, two of the laid off employees have secured other jobs with the college, Sikes said.
Twenty-eight positions that will be vacant will be left unfilled, saving more than $2 million.
The proposal will also reduce funding for some research programs and delay the roll out of a cancer program, Sikes said.
The plan will have no effect on enrollment, she said.
The College of Design, Construction & Planning proposal will cut about $985,000 and would involve the layoffs of about six temporary faculty members and four faculty members who would not be eligible for tenure, Sikes wrote in an e-mail.
The plan would also eliminate two vacant staff positions, she wrote.
The college focused on cutting the dean's office first, with almost half of the 10 percent reduction coming from that office, she wrote.
The College of Journalism's $909,000 proposal would involve eight layoffs, according to information provided by dean John Wright.
Seven of those are faculty members, he said, and one is a staff member. The plan would also leave two positions unfilled and eliminate one employee in the Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP).
The proposal would also get rid of the college's Documentary Institute and the master's degree program in Documentary Film.
Four of the layoffs, all faculty members, would be in the Documentary Institute. Wright said the institute, although award-winning, is not as central to the college's mission.
The College of Dentistry's proposal includes plans for a cut of almost $1.7 million, though college spokeswoman Karen Rhodenizer said the college expects to make up some of those potential losses with other revenues from its clinical practice as well as donations and grants.
The proposal states that clinical revenues increased about $1.2 million, or 16 percent, from last year.
The proposal does not include any layoffs but Rhodenizer said some positions will be left unfilled, though how many is unclear.
It also includes plans to reduce the number of speakers for the dean's seminars and spending on food for research-related meetings.
The college's departments were also asked to make across-the-board cuts of 2 to 3 percent. The college does not plan to reduce enrollment, Rhodenizer said.
All colleges and administrative units were asked to submit 10 percent budget cut proposals in anticipation of a possible reduction in the university-wide budget of $72 million to $75 million.
Proposals are due to UF Provost Joe Glover by April 1 and will be publicly released April 15, which will open a period of public comment until the final plan must be submitted to the Board of Trustees, which will take the final vote sometime in May.
The 10 percent proposals have been called a "worst-case scenario." When UF submits its final budget, it plans to enact vertical cuts, cutting some colleges more than others, instead of even across-the board cuts.
