Layoffs and budget cuts are coming to Catholic campuses around the country as the financial impact of the pandemic begins to bite. In many cases, administrators argue that the pandemic is merely prompting reforms necessary to deal with long-term challenges of rising costs and declining numbers of high school graduates. But critics among faculty and students are up in arms over what they see as draconian decisions made without their input that jeopardize the universities' Catholic values.
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