Boren Eases OU Hiring Freeze NORMAN, OK (kccu-fm) - University of Oklahoma President David Boren says he's easing off a campus-wide hiring freeze he announced last month.

But Boren says department heads and administrators will go through a longer process to make certain the positions they want to fill are needed.

The hiring slowdown is in addition to a 9.9 percent increase in tuition and fees. And faculty were given 2 percent pay raises instead of the 4 percent officials had hoped to give.

OU officials ay the moves are in response to a 22 million dollar increase in costs but no increase in state funding. © Copyright 2009, kccu-fm