UC San Diego, bracing for more than $200M in funding cuts, freezes faculty hiring

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UC San Diego, bracing for more than $200M in funding cuts, freezes faculty hiring

UC San Diego — the county’s second-largest employer — is placing a freeze on the hiring of new faculty to help cope with cuts that could cost it more than $200 million in state and especially federal funding. The move was confirmed Thursday by Terry Gaasterland, a computational biologist who also chairs the Academic Senate’s Committee on Planning and Budget, which collaborates with UCSD executives on money issues. She said the campus anticipates…