{"id":171563,"date":"2016-07-26T14:57:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=171563"},"modified":"2016-08-04T14:48:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T20:48:52","slug":"decision-to-cut-nmsu-surveying-engineering-program-isnt-yet-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/07\/decision-to-cut-nmsu-surveying-engineering-program-isnt-yet-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision to cut NMSU Surveying Engineering program isn’t yet final"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtesy photo<\/p>

The Ed and Harold Foreman Engineering Complex on NMSU’s main campus in Las Cruces, shown here, is home to the Surveying Engineering program, which Chancellor Garrey Carruthers has proposed eliminating.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kurt Wurm believed\u00a0the decision to cut his job as a professor in New Mexico State University’s Surveying Engineering program had already been made\u00a0— until this reporter told him\u00a0otherwise last week.<\/p>\n

Eliminating\u00a0the program — which includes Wurm’s and two other faculty jobs\u00a0—\u00a0was\u00a0among the budget cuts NMSU Chancellor Garrey Carruthers announced earlier this month<\/a>. Cutting the program, NMSU says, would save the university $340,644 each year. The university\u00a0is struggling to address\u00a0an estimated $12.1 million shortfall in the current fiscal year caused largely by decreased state funding and declining enrollment.<\/p>\n

NMSU may have given the impression that the decision to eliminate Surveying Engineering was final. A\u00a0news release<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0a slideshow presentation<\/a> given at a public meeting earlier this month said the plan would be presented to the Faculty Senate in the fall, but Carruthers told NMPolitics.net<\/a> he believed the cut could be made regardless of the Faculty Senate’s recommendation.<\/p>\n