Pennsylvania’s state universities move to lay off more than 100 full-time faculty – The Philadelphia Inquirer
It would be the largest such retrenchment in the state system’s history, according to the faculty union, which intends to try to save the jobs.
Five universities in Pennsylvania’s state system have moved to lay off more than 100 full-time faculty members, which would be the largest such retrenchment in the system’s history, according to the faculty union.
The step follows years of declining enrollment in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and as the system undergoes a redesign, including the integration of six of the 14 schools into two entities.
Cheyney, a historically Black university in Chester and Delaware Counties, would lose six faculty members. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, which has lost about a third of its enrollment in the last decade, would take the biggest hit. More than 80 tenure and tenure-track faculty have been targeted for job loss at the university, which is preparing to restructure and eliminate five fine arts programs and move its journalism and public relations department into communications media. Other schools include Edinboro with 21, Mansfield, three, and Lock Haven, two.