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The increase took the payroll for administrators to $22.1 million, according to the UA鈥檚 new First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2025 report, which delves into employee headcounts and payroll spending. There are 285 administrators.

鈥淲hat we saw was those vice presidents we talked about went away, but we hired other positions that replaced a lot of those,鈥� said UA鈥檚 Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer John Arnold in an interview Tuesday with the 蜜柚直播. 鈥淪pecifically, we started a new college this year, which is the .鈥�

鈥淭here were seven administrators associated specifically with that college,鈥� he said. The 蜜柚直播 Board of Regents approved the new college as part of a push at all three state universities to help address a shortage of health-care professionals.

The seven positions were filled internally while former President Robert C. Robbins was still in charge, said UA spokesperson Mitch Zak. He confirmed they were hired after the university鈥檚 鈥渉iring freeze,鈥� which was lifted on June 30.

鈥淭he new college has been in the works for years, and it was really born out of the Board of Regents鈥� desire to expand health care for 蜜柚直播ns,鈥� said Arnold. 鈥淭he university responded to that by developing these additional offerings that are in high, high demand and there鈥檚 high, high needs for those offerings in the state.鈥�

Despite the higher administrative payroll, cutting the 13 vice president positions did save costs for the university, Zak said. The VP contracts did not involve buyouts when the positions were cut, and the contracts concluded when their work was done, he said.

Administrative payroll spending for FY 2025 breaks down to $17.2 million for colleges; about $1 million for the provost鈥檚 office 鈥� which includes academic affairs, student life, diversity and inclusion, enrollment management, 蜜柚直播 online, outreach, distance and continuing education, 蜜柚直播 international and undergraduate education, and all academic and student support priorities; and $3.8 million for central administration.

Faculty positions cut

In the new report, the UA also revealed that 42 full-time faculty positions were cut, taking the full-time faculty count down to 2,594 from 2,636, as the university worked to reduce its deficit from $177 million to $63 million in fiscal year 2024.

However, Arnold told the Star the number of full-time faculty has already been brought up from 2,594 to 2,607 and part-time faculty increased from 517 to 554.

鈥淭he (hiring) freeze is off, we鈥檙e processing new hires everyday, our employee count continues to go up,鈥� said Arnold. 鈥溾�� Hiring continues to go, but that鈥檚 part of the natural cycle the university is on. We hit our low-point employment probably mid-July, and then it starts to climb, and it continues to climb until probably February-March, and then it starts to decline as we wind down towards the end of the year.鈥�

He said fiscal year 2025鈥檚 鈥渆mployee numbers have returned to levels comparable to those seen two years ago in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023.鈥� Arnold called that 鈥減retty powerful.鈥�

The number of full-time service professionals increased from 35 to 36, and the ranks of postdoctoral scholars remained stagnant at 129.

Every other section saw a reduction between the first quarters of FY 2024 and 2025. The number of classified staff went from 433 to 348 (-85), professionals from 342 to 291 (-51), and academic professionals decreased from 210 to 194 (-16).

The spending report excludes UA Global Campus employees.

In full-time positions, faculty payroll took the biggest drop, going down from $75.5 million to $71.6 million. Classified staff payroll took the second-highest hit, dropping from $5.47 million to $4.47 million. Academic professionals鈥� payroll decreased from $5.4 million to $4.8 million, and professional employees鈥� payroll dropped to $1.7 million from $2.2 million.

In deciding where to cut budgets university-wide, 鈥淲e relied heavily on the deans,鈥� said Arnold. 鈥淚 was relatively new to the university, so the provost (Ron Marx) and I met with every single dean last spring, starting February, March and April, went through the budgets for their departments, asked them to bring forward ideas on how they could reduce their budgets, and we gave some guidance. We accepted their ideas and then asked them to implement the budget they were assigned. And so yeah, those decisions on how to implement were really at the college level.鈥�

In payrolls for part-time employees, assistant/associate employees鈥� payroll was cut from $7.1 million to $5.7 million; part-time student workers鈥� costs were reduced from $3.6 million to $3.3 million; and part-time faculty costs went down from $2.7 million to $2.6 million.

Arnold said it isn鈥檛 clear if the number of graduate associates/assistants will rise to what it was before the deficit.

鈥淕raduate assistants depends on workload and then dollars,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e certainly want to employ and support graduate assistants, same with student workers. And, you know, I鈥檇 very much like to see our employment of student workers come back up as we stabilize and move forward.鈥�