Faculty layoffs announced at East Stroudsburg, Cheyney universities - Jan Murphy, Penn Live

Six faculty members at Cheyney University received notice this week that their jobs were being eliminated at the end of the spring semester. Two faculty members at East Stroudsburg University received the same notice. This is the third consecutive year that universities in 110,000-student Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education have laid off faculty as part of the system's overall efforts to adjust to a decline in enrollment, tightening revenues, and changes in workforce needs. At East Stroudsburg, two music professors were advised on Wednesday that their jobs will disappear, along with all music courses as well as the university's choral program and orchestra, at the end of the year. At Cheyney, faculty union President Ken Mash said on Thursday six faculty members were told they would be without a job at the end of the academic year – one in biology, two in business, one in education, one in fashion merchandising and a librarian. http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/10/faculty_layoffs_announced_at_e.html