Edgewood College offered buyouts, cutting about 30 full-time positions
Edgewood College offered buyouts to more than three dozen faculty members earlier this academic year in response to a decline in student enrollment.
The college will cut about 30 full-time positions, or about 5% of its 600-person employee base, at the end of the spring semester. It also plans to increase its student-to-instructor ratio from 9:1 to 15:1 over the next several years by eliminating about 10% of course sections offered.
The changes will encompass one of the largest shifts the small Dominican university has experienced in decades.
Edgewood College President Scott Flanagan said it's the first time he can recall faculty members being offered a buyout since he arrived on campus in the late 1990s, a time of rapid expansion for colleges across the country.
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