NORTHRIDGE : Campus Likely to Lay Off 450 but Protect Professors
Cal State Northridge officials predict that there will be no layoffs of tenured or tenure-track professors in the coming school year but estimate that they will eliminate nearly 450 other jobs, including 311 lecturers, according to a budget report submitted Wednesday to California State University trustees.
The estimate is based on an anticipated 7% reduction in state funds for the 1993-94 school year, which begins in July, said Donald Bianchi, Cal State Northridge’s vice president for academic affairs. Faculty Senate President Louise Lewis said the report is a relief to many professors who feared that the state’s lingering recession would force for the first time the layoff of tenured faculty members.
“If we can hold to this, that would be great,” Lewis said, “But people shouldn’t get comfortable yet.”
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