An independent report commissioned by frustrated professors released Friday, Feb. 11, questions whether Whitman College needed to make steep budget cuts in 2021, impacting student services and instructor compensation, among other things. Whitman College is on sure financial footing, according to the report, and appears to be recovering from the impacts of the pandemic. Yet it has cut professor positions, truncated sabbatical programs and cut compensation — cuts not seen to the same degree by top-level administrators.
