Southern U. begins to lay off tenured faculty members, staff in the wake of declaring financial emergency last year
The Advocate
January 29, 2012
Southern University has begun to lay off tenured faculty members and staff in the wake of declaring a financial emergency last year.
Chancellor James Llorens said Friday that the immediate layoffs include fewer than 10 staff employees and tenured architecture professor John Delgado, who will lose his job as of Feb. 15.
A few more tenured faculty cuts were expected this month, Llorens said, but a few resignations and retirements offset that need.
Thirty or so more tenured faculty members could receive termination notices in March, Llorens said.
The chancellor said the extra cuts this month were required because of an extra $2.94 million state budget cut to Southern that came down in December because of declining state revenues.
