Eliminating benefits for part-time employees is no longer one of the options being considered as Purdue looks for cost-saving measures to avoid a projected $67 million budget deficit by 2013.
 
It is anticipated that part-time employees will not see changes to their benefits beyond those recently announced for TIAA-CREF retirement and any future adjustments to medical benefits. Existing benefits for disability, life insurance, PERF retirement, and fee remissions for part-time staff would continue as before.