Now Universities are laying off staff. Not sure if the President of the University needed to make his bonus numbers or not but the excuse is not AI (Thank God) but that international students have reduced applications so they have to cut costs. This will escalate as F1 visas become harder and H1Bs get harder. These corporations cut everything before cutting executive comp. Time to attack that too. And no, their "skill-set" isn't unique, I am sure an H1B can easily do a Univ President job.

Time for poorly run universities to just shut down.

More universities are going to start laying off in the coming months.

Our own kids were getting shut out of American Universities, which are now merely finishing schools for rich foreign brats so they are set up for high paying American jobs.

Sucks for the employees who lost their job for likely no fault of their own but the reason is a good one. I am okay with foreigners coming here, paying full tuition and going back. But no, they want our jobs too.

GTFO.

DePaul University lays off 7.6% of staff in effort to address budget shortfall for Fiscal Year 2026, school confirms
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/depaul-university-lays-off-7-6-of-staff-in-effort-to-address-budget-shortfall-for-fiscal-year-2026-school-confirms/

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CHICAGO DePaul University laid off 7.6% of its staff last week in what the school says is an effort to address a significant budget shortfall for Fiscal Year 2026.

In a message sent Monday to faculty and staff, DePaul University President Robert L. Manuel confirmed that 114 of the school's 1,493 full-time and part-time staff members had their final day of work at DePaul on Friday, Dec. 12.

"The last several weeks have been some of the most difficult our community has ever experienced," Manuel's message began. "In the interest of transparency, and with heavy hearts, we wanted to inform you that we have now completed the staffing reductions."

Responding to an inquiry from WGN-TV on Tuesday, University Communications said: "Like many higher education institutions across the country, DePaul is facing financial headwinds due to a significant drop in international graduate student enrollment, an increased demand for financial aid, and the rising costs of benefits.

"We have taken swift action to reduce spending in our current operating budget to meet our financial obligations."

University Communications said the school is now "launching a strategic plan, Designing DePaul, that will invest in essential academic and student success initiatives, create new revenue streams, and build a resilient and mission-aligned future for the university."

Additionally, University Communications said reports that DePaul's Loop Library has closed "are incorrect."

"The Loop Library did experience staff cuts but remains open this academic year with reduced hours," University Communications said. "There is a full-time librarian and part-time staff at that location."

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2wealfth Man said:

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How about lower tuition and offer some relevant degree programs

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How about really charging out-of-state tuition to illegal aliens? I remember when those out of state tuition rates were very high and meeting the residency requirements for in-state were long. Over a year, for instance.

I'd like to see the forensics on how turning off the USAID/NGO money faucet impacted organizations downstream.

dathebeachguy said:

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I'd like to see the forensics on how turning off the USAID/NGO money faucet impacted organizations downstream.

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Shouldn't be tough to get copies of last year's and this year's budget. Or next year's.

Pretty high level side by side will tell you where to dig deeper.

DePaul has a reported $1 billion endowment, which should produce at least $25 million a year comfortably (three times that if invested properly); givings of roughly $50 million per year and program operations income (tuition, etc., I believe) for somewhere in the $700-800 MILLION a year range. I'm trying to figure out how they can't support 1500 employees on all three of those amounts. There are companies in the Russell 2000 that have somewhat similar revenues and employee counts in that range (without the endowment).

Need to reduce the required hours for a degree. More focus, less spend.

Moar please!

DePablo University

it's all on brand for Chicago

Just look at the bloated ratio of students to administrative staff in most colleges. Layoffs are coming due to lower foreign enrollment and colleges pricing themselves out of the market .

The 4-year degree is - for the majority of studies - antiquated and unnecessary.

Want to learn a foreign language? Cool, get an app to learn it.

Want to study history? Watch YouTube.

Feel a desire to become an expert at Social Media marketing? Ummm, you've been that since you were 9.

American colleges and universities are an embarrassment.

Heineken-Ashi said:

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Good. 50% of profs and admin could get laid off and academia would still be bloated.

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Understated, for real.

For the guys that publish meaningful research, my props. For most, including myself, the world would have been a lot better off with no research and focusing that time on teaching students. Although (self-plug here) I spent an exceptional amount of time teaching/advising including arranging and supervising internships. Usually at least 3X my teaching contact hours per week.

For faculty - increase the number of contact hours, increase the number of classes, change performance metrics to focus on teaching.

Administrators - I would argue one administrator per 5-10 students might be reasonable, at some universities it is more than 1 to 1.

DePaul is in Chicago. Perhaps it's a case of "a falling tide sinks all ships".

Good. The more colleges have to cut back, lose staff, lose programs, etc the better the country will be.

Heineken-Ashi said:

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Good. 50% of profs and admin could get laid off and academia would still be bloated.

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Probably 75%

fullback44 said:

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Probably because USAid was cut from one of their NGOs - makes you wonder how many colleges were "paid" to go woke

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A&M had its fair share of lazy educators on the USAID tit as well.

Higer ed dorks absolutely used usaid to see the world, get drunk off their pathetic old asses and bang foreign prosties on misappropriated money.

I think the first thing these univs should do is to weed out the useless meaningless majors like "Gender Studies" that are up to no good other than create more victims and inject poison into society.

My question to those who went to university in the 60s and 70s, what nonsense majors did universities have in those days?

I asked ChatGPT and it says these are the most useless majors today from the jobs perspective (what else matters?)

• General Studies
• Liberal Studies
• Philosophy (without grad school)
• Art History
• Music Performance (non-education track)
• Theater / Drama
• Dance
• Creative Writing
• English Literature (alone)
• History (alone)
• Sociology (alone)
• Anthropology
• Gender Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Religious Studies
• Psychology (bachelor's only)
• Communications
• Journalism (traditional print focus)
• Fine Arts
• Photography