USC considers deep cuts at social work school after revelations of gaping deficit - HARRIET RYAN and MATT HAMILTON, LA Times

The social work school at USC might lay off nearly half its staff and eliminate most of its part-time teaching positions. USC’s social work school, the largest in the world and one of the oldest in the nation, might be forced to lay off nearly half its staff and eliminate the vast majority of its part-time teaching positions following the revelations of severe budget problems that began under a former dean. Marilyn Flynn stepped down from her post at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work last year amid scrutiny of a $100,000 donation she had transferred through school coffers to a nonprofit controlled by the son of a powerful local politician, as The Times reported last year citing interviews and correspondence. The donation prompted an investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles that is ongoing. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-usc-social-work-finances-20190508-story.html