Enrollment at Portland State University has declined by more than 20 percent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its president is now pushing to lay off faculty and eliminate two departments, despite objections and no-confidence votes from employees.
President Ann Cudd says she hasn’t made any final decisions yet. She has scaled back designs for cuts she announced in March and says the plan won’t be set until after the latest campus comment period ends June 13.
But her current provisional plan includes axing 52 members of the union representing the university’s full-time faculty and nonfaculty academic professional workers. Leaders of that union, PSU–American Association of University Professors, say a dozen tenured faculty are among those on the chopping block.
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