Thursday ASU will submit its recommendation of $1.6 million in budget cuts to the University System of Georgia.

“I was hoping to work on campus so I could be close to school because I plan on going to school full time. I wanted to be closer to school to get more hours,” ASU student Courtney Arthur said.

“We really need a student assistant,” said ASU director Dr. James Garvey.

If ASU's proposed budget reductions are put into effect Arthur and Garvey likely will never work together.

“I think it's unfair,” Arthur said.

The University has been asked to put together a plan to reduce its budget by 5 percent, that's $1.6 million.

Reductions may come in areas such as student employment, maintenance and faculty.

New faculty hires would likely be part time which according to Cathy Schofe of ASU's Public Relations office can raise some problems.

“If they know that they’re not here for the long term there’s less interaction. They don’t write grants because they don’t know what their status is,” Schofe said.

The part time instructors must still meet the school's qualifications. A fact that has some students feeling a little easier about reductions.

“Teachers that are going to be substituting or coming in temporarily do still have the qualifications to teach so I would still feel like I’m getting a quality education,” ASU student Jill Greenamyer said.

According to Garvey the school has done its best to propose reductions in areas that would not affect students learning.

“Maybe the grass won’t get cut as often or the bulbs won’t be replaced as often stuff like that. I think they’ve tried to find the 5 percent they needed as much as they could from places that didn’t affect instruction which is the most important thing we do here,” Garvey said.

ASU is one of 35 schools that is proposing budget cuts. The proposal will be turned in to the University System of Georgia Chancellor Thursday.

The chancellor will present his plan in September. We'll let you know when the cuts go into effect.