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The University of Arizona and Pima Community College are moving forward with faculty hiring but are freezing or limiting other hiring in the face of the state budget downturn.

At Pima, administrative and staff positions that have not moved to the interview process are being frozen, said college spokesman Dave Irwin. All current acting administrator positions are also frozen, which impacts three acting division deans and two acting deans of students. A hold has also been ordered on administrative travel.

Hiring for 52 faculty positions for next year is proceeding. Both the freeze and the travel hold, which were announced Feb. 25, are open-ended, Irwin said.

Recommendations from campus presidents and vice chancellors for hiring exceptions will be reviewed case by case.

At the UA, hiring for the remainder of the fiscal year has been limited to crucial positions under a Feb. 21 order from President Robert Shelton.

"I view faculty hires as in the critical category," Shelton said during Monday's faculty senate meeting.

The Arizona Board of Regents is expected to give further direction to the state universities regarding budget and hiring issues at its meeting today and Friday on the Arizona State University campus.

The UA is already down about 48 state-funded positions since the start of the fall semester, resulting in a savings of $1.3 million.

The biggest change is in student employees and graduate assistants, which are down 8 percent and 2 percent, respectively, meaning students who depend on campus work to pay for school are the ones being hit hardest. Other immediate UA savings are coming from cuts in out-of-state recruiting.

Gov. Janet Napolitano ordered a state hiring freeze on Feb. 21, but the order did not cover the state universities.