Monday, November 30, 2020

COVID Forces Colleges to Slash Budgets, Programs, and Jobs - Bidisha Das, College Post

 According to a PEW Charitable Trusts analysis of data from the Department of Labor, the total number of state education jobs declined by 13.7 percent, or 340,300 between February and October 2020. At last month’s Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Board of Governer’s meeting, chancellor Daniel Greenstein said, “We have been in aggressive recession management for 12 years — probably more than 12 years,” while proposing to merge some half-dozen small educational institutions into two academic entities.

https://thecollegepost.com/colleges-slash-budgets-programs-covid/