More than 100 professors at Pa. state universities may be out of a job come spring [View all]
More than 100 tenured and tenure-track faculty members received notices on Friday that they may lose their jobs at the end of the upcoming spring semester.
Retrenchment, or furlough, letters went out to faculty at Cheyney, Edinboro, Indiana, Lock Haven and Mansfield universities. California and Clarion Universities of Pennsylvania notified the faculty union of possible retrenchments as well but none of their tenured professors received notices by Friday’s deadline when universities were contractually bound to inform them.
According to the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties, the breakdown of the furlough notices by university have six of them at Cheyney, 21 at Edinboro, 81 at Indiana, two at Lock Haven, and three at Mansfield.
“Not only are faculty cuts a blow to the professors themselves, but, by extension, layoffs take opportunities away from students,” said Jamie Martin, president of the union representing State System faculty and coaches. “Retrenchment is devastating at any time, but these letters are threatening to take away livelihoods and healthcare in the middle of a global pandemic.”
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