Union officials would not say how many of its 318 full-time professors voted for the job action.

He said the average salary for a full-time professor was about $70,000 a year.

A faculty line is either two part-time instructors or one full-time professor.

With the closing, 33 full-time professors and 133 employees were left without jobs.

In 1973 he was hired as a full-time professor of public service, working across the entire state college system.

The institution currently has more than 20 full-time professors and about 700 students.

He estimates that the school will eventually have a staff of about 270, including 120 full-time professors.

"It will be hard to get ministry officials to take a day off to come here, and you may have to resort to full-time professors."

He dropped out of college his sophomore year, and had never thought much about becoming a full-time professor.

The budget includes $16.5 million for 300 new full-time professors.