For weeks, faculty across the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) have been dreading the anticipated news of large-scale faculty layoffs. And Friday, the bad news came. More than 100 tenure and tenure-track faculty members at Indiana, Edinboro, Lock Haven, Cheyney and Mansfield universities were told they would be losing their jobs, effective at the end of the current academic year. The notifications, which were contractually required to be made by October 30 under a collective bargaining agreement, may be just the start. Other faculty, including adjuncts, could still receive notice later in the school year.
