text: David Woodley wrote:  "As UA faces it's greatest fiscal crisis in over two decades connected to declining oil money, they cannot offer solutions or alternative plans, they can just complain."
  Hardly David, the Faculty Senate voted the way they did because UAA Faculty (and those at other campuses) have been excluded from solving the problems at hand (the budget primarily).  I have no idea of what your affiliation is, admin, staff, or faculty, or long term student perhaps,  but a university should not be run "top down" but rather should funchtion with the input of all - it is a community.  UA administrators are trying to dictate what is to be done as we face this crisis while ignoring reality and operating without evidence, all the while failing to take advantage of the resources that faculty (and staff) can bring to the table.  This is not the Army or the Air Force, it is a university.