Budget cuts lead to layoffs - Richard Cracchiolo, the Northerner

Putting the plans it devised last spring to deal with its budget problems into action, NKU had to make some layoffs over the summer. According to President Geoffrey Mearns the university had to terminate between 40 and 45 staff positions this past June. However, of those positions, only 25 were occupied and eight of those staff members were relocated to different positions around the university. “Overall, there were about 15 or 16 people who exited the university as a result of the reduction,” Mearns said. At the spring 2014 budget address in April, Mearns said that NKU not only faced the same 2.5 percent budget cut that all other universities faced across the state, which would have meant $1.2 million cut from NKU, the university also needed to give $4.8 million to the Kentucky Educational Retirement System. http://www.thenortherner.com/news/2014/09/04/budget-cuts-lead-to-layoffs/