While declining enrollment and financial challenges are the driving force behind most job and program cuts announced last month, in Texas, politics also played a role. Politics, not economics, accounted for the deepest cuts across higher education in April, with the University of Texas at Austin laying off more than 40 workers in its Division of Campus and Community Engagement (formerly the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement) and another 20 employees in other divisions. The University of Texas at Dallas also cut 20 jobs last month in closing its Office of Campus Resources and Support. Officials cited the new anti-DEI law as the reason for the closure. Elsewhere, job cuts were driven by business challenges as colleges dropped programs with low enrollment or trimmed staff for financial reasons. Here’s a roundup of recent campus job cuts.
