Fewer than 100 positions at Northern Arizona University would be laid off in response to budget concerns and there would be no reductions in tenured or tenure-track faculty, the university president said. President Rita Cheng released a statement responding to a protest earlier in the week where more than 70 demonstrators gathered outside Flagstaff City Hall on Wednesday to protest the layoffs, instead calling for administrators to implement furloughs or pay cuts, the Arizona Daily Sun reported.
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