[znpy]

> To ensure that we continue to thrive in an even more complex future, we must commit, across every part of our institution, to a sustainable budget today.

Are they implicitly admitting they have been living on an unsustainable budget so far?

Seeing other comments bringing up the numbers of staff vs students+faculty would suggest that’s the case…

[acdha]

Their budget is unsustainable in the same way that your budget is unsustainable if your boss cuts your pay. They have setup education and research programs based on decades of past funding, but that was unexpectedly subject to illegal reductions with the promise of permanent reductions, nothing like which has happened before and which is completely disconnected from any kind of economic necessity. It’s not like we had some kind of natural disaster or pandemic which actually shrunk the economy and tax revenue but simply a political power play trying to cancel perceived class enemies.

[sega_sai]

They had a sustainable budget, but the government decided to cut already agreed budgets.