UT-Austin Considering Outsourcing Some Campus Services
A new report released Tuesday by the University of Texas at Austin calls for the university to rethink its approach to housing, food and parking services. It also called for gradually raising the prices for those services up to market rates.
The report, which is the product of a committee on business productivity that UT President Bill Powers assembled in April 2012, recommends consolidating business and administrative functions that are currently duplicated in individual colleges, improving the process for commercialization of technology developed on campus, and becoming more energy efficient.
The committee, composed of business leaders from around the country ...
Comments (3)
Pickles Sorrell
For whom does the bell toll? It tolls for thee, William Powers, it tolls for thee.
The new Regents are almost appointed and with them will be the new era, the new post BIll Powers era for UT-Austin and it can't happen fast enough.
Bye, bye Billy!
Anna A
Instead of outsourcing the lower paid jobs, UT needs to stop creating director, associate director, assistant associate director, and other high paying positions after the lower paid jobs are eliminated. It is obvious that many departments are top heavy. Eliminating the high paying jobs (associate directors, etc.) keeps fewer people out of the unemployment line -- fewer people lose their jobs and money is still saved.
Powers needs to be the first one with the pay cut.
Christie Smith
It was rigged to begin with. Note the chair is from Accenture - these would be the same folks who did such a horrible job privatizing HHSC services that the state took it back!