Meanwhile UA continues to operate satellite campuses at Nome, Kotzebue, Eagle River, Valdez, MasSu, Homer, Dillingham, Bethel, Ketchikan and Kodiak. These sites are not critical to the mission of the university.  They have a modicum of students. In some cases more employees than classroom students. Employees like the status quo because they receive substantial wage differentials that compute into their pensions. So, it is a bit difficult to muster sympathy for a 5% funding reduction by the legislature while the university continues to operate in this manner.  Substantially more than 5% operating efficiency stands to be reaped by moving activities from these small inefficient satellite facilities to the three core campuses.  In a broader context this situation is symptomatic of why we cannot solve Alaska's financial dilemma. Supporters of Alaska's government bureaucracies nibble at the margins, but bitterly resist the kind of changes that will yield substantial efficiencies.