Penn State job cuts hit agriculture college - Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Job losses that are starting to ripple across Pennsylvania's public university campuses have reached the state's flagship school. Penn State University on Monday announced it is laying off 10 employees in its college of agricultural sciences. In addition, upwards of 30 positions within the college are being eliminated through attrition, all the result of "state appropriations that have not kept pace with rising costs," university officials said. Penn State says the cuts for the fiscal year starting July 1, and deeper ones that may await in 2011-12, will be felt across the college's research and cooperative-extension missions, which are involved in initiatives that include promoting food and water safety. Those programs are not supported by tuition.