If you're starting your reach for a higher education at UH, then you may have to stretch.
New and old students alike will find fewer classes and instructors when they make their way onto campus in the coming week and a half.
It's one of the first, difficult things facing you in your college career.
Getting the classes you need at the time you want
Students it's about to get harder.
"Because we had to cancel about 500 class sections for this new semester. We had to not renew the contracts of about 150 instructors. So there are fewer classes. They are larger. And they are maybe at inconvenient time", says Gregg Takayama, University of Hawaii Spokesman.
A tightening budget belt is sure to make some coed's experience a little less memorable.
But if this semester may be slightly more inconvenient wait til next.
"Spring 2010 we will face the same situation except worse. We're trying to minimize the cuts as much as we can to lessen the impact on students, but it's unavoidable that there will be an impact on students and instructors."
Takayama says the university made less of a cut into areas that students depend heavily on for "CORE" classes everyone is required to have.
"So they will be cut by about two and a half percent. The rest of the programs on campus will be cut by more than double, about 6 percent."
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?
Takayama says that's tough to estimate with public worker unions still negotiating new contracts.
"For example, a furlough program of one day a month would save us about twelve million dollars a year, which is about the same amount we're cutting from our instructional program."
Students start moving into dorms on Tuesday of next week, with classes set to resume the week after.
