The New School Cuts 19 Professors and 68 Staff as Deficits Force Restructuring
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 5
The New School Cuts 19 Professors and 68 Staff as Deficits Force Restructuring
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 5
Summary
Nineteen professors — including nine with tenure — were laid off in June as The New School pushed through a restructuring aimed at stabilizing the university.
Shrinking enrollment and crippling deficits drove the cuts, which also eliminated 68 staff jobs and followed buyouts and early retirements.
Full-time faculty fell to 387 from 430 a year earlier, deepening concerns among professors that the Manhattan university is weakening its social science research mission.
The New School, founded in 1919 and enrolling about 8,500 students, reflects a broader post-pandemic pattern of universities using reorganizations to cut even tenured faculty.