Universities in Pennsylvania cutting programs and faculty: Higher Education Roundup - Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer

As officials at Ohio’s public universities scrutinize their budgets in the wake of ongoing enrollment challenges and state funding issues, their counterparts in Pennsylvania are facing serious problems. In the last few years, the state’s 14-university system has shed 5 percent of its permanent workforce and discontinued or frozen new enrollment to 198 academic programs, according to Inside Higher Ed. But that wasn’t enough to shore up their budgets. Now, universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education are looking to end programs, lay off dozens of full-time faculty members, and cut ties with numerous adjuncts and more staffers.

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