Northwestern has laid off 87 staff members across schools and units, according to a Wednesday email from University President Morton Schapiro. Of these staff members, about one third were previously furloughed in June, Schapiro said in the email. The layoffs are not “exclusively” the result of too few people taking a recent “staff voluntary separation plan,” Schapiro emphasized, with 187 staff — roughly the number forecasted, according to the email— taking that option. The University had previously planned to cut 150 to 200 through the buyout program.
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