I wish I personally had something to suggest or offer, but I don't. However, something kind of comparable was announced in Australia a couple years ago, and with the intervention of a lot of mathematicians from around the world, the plan was scaled back, at least temporarily. Terry Tao was heavily involved:
- http://terrytao.wordpress.com/support-usq-maths/
- http://terrytao.wordpress.com/about/petition-to-support-maths-statistics-and-computing-at-usq/
- http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/please-help-support-mathematics-at-the-university-of-southern-queensland/
Maybe some of the info in the above pages can be of some use to you.
