ORLANDO, Fla. -- State budget cuts are forcing the University of Central Florida to make changes on their growing campus.

UCF, along with the rest of the state’s public universities, has lost a great deal of funding.

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"Since July 1 of last year UCF has lost almost $40 million in state funding and at some point you just can't keep going on as normal," UCF spokesman Grant Heston said.

UCF must reduce its annual spending by $11.4 million and university leaders are looking to the school’s deans to make cuts.

"This process is designed to help us identify and protect those programs and activities that are most important to our student's success and our university's success and make sure that they're funded appropriately,” Heston said.

Budget cuts have forced 73 faculty positions to be cut, and 68 staff positions to remain unfilled. No one has been laid off so far.

Some incoming freshmen are concerned about their future at the university.

"If my program's not here anymore I'm going to have to change my major," freshman Danielle Lewis said.

"It definitely concerns me because that would definitely cut off some opportunities we could have," freshman Ashley Mack said.

UCF said the impact of the budget cuts will probably not be visible until the fall of 2009.