University of Cincinnati jobs would be lost in July under a budget presented to trustees Friday.

        “There are ouchy periods and this appears to be one of them,” Vice President Dale L. McGirr said after delivering the numbers.

        If the deficit for the budget year that begins July 1 is the expected $8 million, he said, 100 to 200 positions would be cut on the main, medical and applied sciences campuses, mostly from the administration rather than the faculty.

        Mr. McGirr said he did not know how many employees would be fired because some jobs have been left unfilled.

        There are about 5,000 nonstudent, nonteaching staff on those three campuses.

        “It's getting ugly,” George A. Schaefer Jr., chairman of the trustees' finance committee, said after seeing the numbers.

        The shortfall relates only to the $330 million core budget of the central campuses. Raymond Walters and Clermont colleges are separately funded by the state and their budgets were not included in Friday's presentation.

        Academic departments — whose faculty members cannot be fired as quickly as others on campus — probably will leave positions vacant and reduce other expenses to carry their share of the cuts.

        Mr. McGirr and others attributed much of the problem to an unexpected fall in the number of undergraduates paying tuition and the low level of the basic state subsidy. Less than 1 percent for UC, it falls short of the annual inflation increase.

        There is still time to lobby for more money, Mr. McGirr said, “but the odds are that it isn't going to get much better than this.”

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