School year starts with budget cuts, layoffs - Kyly Clark, Eagle's Eye

Deep cuts designed to balance Sierra Nevada College’s budget were handed down just weeks before the start of fall semester, leaving six full-time faculty members jobless and crippling the humanities and art departments. The cuts were delivered alongside operating budget, athletics, and other staffing reductions to the tune of nearly $1.4 million. In the wake of the layoffs, at least two of the professors, SNC Faculty Council chair Samantha Bankston and council vice-chair Dan Aalbers, claim their jobs were terminated as political retribution for criticizing administrative decision-making and attempting to unionize the college’s academic workforce. SNC Tahoe administrative leadership rebut the charges, holding steadfast that staff reductions were a necessary, “data-driven” decision, designed to have minimal negative impact on current and future students. https://snceagleseye.com/10309/news/school-year-starts-budget-cuts-layoffs/