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SIU Faculty Claims Furlough Savings Don't Add Up
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) -- A faculty group at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale claims the administration's numbers aren't clear when it comes to furlough days proposed to save the school money.

The university's faculty association president Randy Hughes tells WSIU Radio that the group has analyzed the numbers and they don't add up.

University officials say fewer students, a decline in state dollars and the loss of federal stimulus money has left more than a $2 million hole in the university's budget. University officials have proposed unpaid days and layoffs.

Several of the university's unions oppose the plan.

The group and the university will start up negotiations again next year.

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