President Todd Diacon announced the implementation of a hiring freeze for the university. Diacon said because of the university’s challenges of decreasing enrollment due to uncertainty around international enrollment and a decrease in high school graduates in Northeast Ohio, the freeze is necessary. “This decline, combined with our directing an additional $2 million to need based aid means that we have a $12 million gap to fill in order to deliver a balanced budget for Board approval…,” Diacon said. “Our plan is to cover three-fourths of this budget gap with a hiring freeze, which I will announce formally this week, and cover the remaining gap with efficiencies elsewhere.”
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