Youngstown State University lays off employees to balance budget - Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer

Youngstown State University will lay off 15 employees and not fill 43 open positions under a $3.8 million budget reduction plan announced Thursday. "Three years of enrollment decline and the continued loss of state funding support represent permanent challenges that have resulted in a structural deficit in the university's operating budget," Ikram Khawaja, interim president, said in a news release. "While these actions alone do not resolve our fiscal problems, we believe that they are yet another crucial step toward helping balance our budget while at the same time protecting the academic and other services that are important to our students' continued success." http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/06/youngstown_state_university_la.html