Hannibal-LaGrange University will remain open in the fall despite a troubling fiscal assessment in March. But 15 percent of faculty have lost their jobs, and student morale is suffering. A few hours after the meeting, administrators began calling individual faculty and staff into Harrison’s office for the bad news: they needed to let people go to help fulfill an additional $1.1 million in cost-saving austerity measures. The layoffs included multiple department chairs, a sitting Missouri state representative and a two-time Fulbright scholar who was the sole faculty member in the history department, according to the university's employee directory. Many of those let go had been at Hannibal-LaGrange for well over a decade.
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