Financial struggles may lead to no-confidence vote at Pennsylvania college - Jean Dimeo, Education Dive

Administrators at York College, a small private institution in Pennsylvania, are looking to increase health insurance fees, cut severance packages and reduce institutional contributions to the retirement fund in an effort to reduce budgets by $1.4 million, according to the York Dispatch. The cost-cutting measures have drawn the college's shared governance body to reject the measures and to accuse administration of leaving faculty members out of finance and management planning. Faculty members say that enrollment has been falling by an average of 100 students since 2011, resulting in a $10 million dip in tuition revenues. When combined with costs from the college working to transition to university status (adding programs and support services), professors also say they are being unfairly targeted for cuts that could be taken from other areas of the institution. In a letter to the campus community last month, York College President Pamela Gunter-Smith told the campus community that cuts were being made across the institution, with senior leaders reducing department budgets by more than $1 million in unfilled staff positions. https://www.educationdive.com/news/financial-struggles-may-lead-to-no-confidence-vote-at-pennsylvania-college/523956/