University of Cincinnati President Joseph A. Steger and his top aides have decided how to handle this year's anticipated $11 million loss of state funds, but they have not apportioned the cuts.

        “We haven't come up with an action list yet,” spokesman Greg Hand said Friday. “When we get to an action list, it will have two parts.”

        The first involves cuts best made directly by the central administration.

        James D. Plummer, associate vice president for finance, said he was looking for costs “where we can say we were going to do this, but we're not going to do it.”

        The second will distribute cuts among divisions led by UC's vice presidents, from legal affairs and student life to medicine and research.

        That could come Oct. 19 after a meeting of Dr. Steger and his vice presidents.

        Anonymous comments to the contrary, UC does not have 15 percent of its budget stashed for emergencies, Mr. Plummer said.

        UC's board rejected such a fund because it would have added 1 percent to this year's tuition increase for full-time undergraduates.

        Complicating UC's deliberations are two questions beyond its control.

        No one is sure how much Gov. Bob Taft is taking back as state tax revenues de cline. He already has cut higher education spending by 8 percent this year.

        A second general uncertainty involves the size of court-mandated increases in state funding for K-12 public education. UC expects some to come at the expense of colleges and universities.

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