UNCG employees are taking a mandatory furlough in the next two months and will likely have to contribute more to cost-cutting in the next year.Nevertheless, UNCG continues to print and distribute copies of its Campus Weekly newsletter (shown at right above) to all employees. Printing costs alone worked out to $331.50 this week. There are about 40 newsletters per year, so the annual cost for printing works out to more than $13,000. The costs for distributing it add to that.
UNCG also produces and distributes 13,000 copies of a glossy magazine, UNCG Research (shown at right below), on its research accomplishments. The cost of the copies is listed as $11,579 per copy. Fortunately, this only appears to come out once a year.
So, in the middle of one of the worst budget crises the university or state has faced and at a time when employees are being asked to sacrifice, UNCG continues to spend the equivalent of several undergraduate scholarships or a pair of graduate fellowships or two dozen conference presentations on two publications that could easily be distributed electronically.At least the University is showing a commitment to recycling, judging by the Department recycling bin, which is currently full with copies of both publications.
