The Board of Regents for Maryland’s state university system is enacting “short-term furloughs” (unpaid leave) for more than 22,000 university employees in order to save the state $16 million. The forced leave will be based on pay grade, with the highest paid employees being made to take as many as 5 days off. This means tenured professors will be forced to take some of the longest lasting furloughs. Students who receive their paychecks from the university may also be affected. “I will fight tooth and nail to ensure that graduate students won't be furloughed,” Provost Nariman Farvardin announced at a Graduate Student Government meeting on Friday. “They're students, not employees.”

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