"As president, I am obligated not to overspend and to reduce the budget in the most humane way possible, which means reducing expenses where there will be the least harm done,” said Thames.

Well, next year he could put the money from G/S's salaries into covering the sabbaticals and in-house grants.

Or, he could have had two productive faculty--one a very popular teacher, the other one of the best known literary scholars in the USA--teaching for USM all along and saved that adjunct money.

that money went for raises!