From the Daily Bruin: UCLA’s political science department cut teaching assistant and reader positions in response to a budget deficit... Each teaching assistant position cut by the department reduces enrollment capacity in political science courses by roughly 60 students...
UCLA is projected to run a $220 million budget deficit for the 2025-26 academic year, Interim Chief Financial Officer Reem Hanna-Harwell announced in a March 26 campuswide email. Hanna-Harwell’s estimate came more than a month after former CFO Stephen Agostini alleged to the Daily Bruin that the university had a $425 million budget deficit for the 2025-26 academic year. Chancellor Julio Frenk announced Agostini was no longer CFO days after the Daily Bruin published his allegations. Hanna-Harwell said higher deficit estimates previously reported were inaccurate, as they included spending requests that had not yet been approved.
The political science department said in an emailed statement that it does not plan to reduce undergraduate seminars for the 2026-27 academic year but did not answer specific questions about whether or not it cut teaching assistant and reader positions. The UCLA Department of Mathematics also limited hours for teaching assistants and eliminated paid graders – who read and grade students’ exams – in response to university-wide budget cuts...
Full story at https://dailybruin.com/2026/07/22/amid-budget-deficit-political-science-department-cuts-tas-shrinks-course-capacities.
Comment: It would be nice to see final the UCLA budget numbers for last year as well as estimates for the current year. Might be helpful for, you know, like planning.
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