Northland Faculty has lower 9 college positions in its quest to downsize, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
“This troublesome, however important, step is a part of the college’s plan to considerably focus its curriculum and construction for the Fall 2024 educational 12 months and past,” the spokesperson mentioned by e-mail.
Northland primarily based its determination on program wants, tenure and seniority amid a revamp of the school’s curriculum. Main the advice course of was the school’s faculty advert hoc committee on monetary exigency, which consulted with program administrators and Northland officers.
No further employees or college reductions are deliberate at the moment, the spokesperson mentioned.
The layoffs comply with an introduced downsizing and realignment on the Wisconsin-based personal liberal arts faculty. After warning that it’d shut, Northland in April declared monetary exigency, a course of that permits faculties to get rid of tenured college in financially troublesome occasions.
After elevating document — and what it known as “transformative” — presents and reviewing its packages in exigency, Northland unveiled a plan earlier this month to refocus aspherical eight educational packages, lots of them centered on outdoor and environmental fields.
With that downsizing, the school plans in the end to chop $7 million from its finances.
