WSU interim president: bad judgment caused financial troubles
“It seems to me there’s been no Dr. No here,” McCray said. “In the end, if I’ve made commitments that were unreasonable and couldn’t be sustained, I had someone who said no, we’re not going to do that.”
Wright State is expected to spend nearly $40 million more than it brought in this year and officials have to cut $25 million from the school’s fiscal year 2018 budget.
Budget cuts and layoffs are expected to be announced next month and some may be proposed as early as next week, but McCray said he was not ready to announce their scope today. McCray’s contract requires him to right WSU’s finances while maintaining the college’s “core athletic programs at a NCAA Division I standing.”
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Today, he said that could mean cutting the university’s men’s golf team.
“Well, the AD has talked to me about that and the AD has mentioned golf,” McCray said. “It’s apparently a program where we don’t have as many students and if we eliminated the program the impact on Division I status would not be there. We would still retain our Division I status.”
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