Posted on 05/07/2020 8:36:11 AM PDT by fluorescence
KALAMAZOO, MI -- More layoffs are coming for employees at Western Michigan University as leaders look to cut expenses amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The university will implement staffing reductions in phases between now and September, said Jennifer Bott, provost and vice president for academic affairs, during a budget briefing published this week on Western’s YouTube channel.
WMU could lose another $85 million in the next fiscal year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Bott said.
Further staffing cuts will be part of overall cost-cutting efforts, she said, as nearly 70% of the university’s general fund expenses go to employee compensation.
“We cannot avoid personnel reductions regardless of how personally difficult it may be," Bott said.
Like other institutions across the state, WMU has lost more than $45 million due to the crisis this year so far, President Edward Montgomery said during a WMU Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, April 23. The school could lose another $45 to $85 million next fiscal year, Montgomery said.
Last week, WMU announced it was laying off 240 employees from one of it’s unions, and implementing 2.5% wage reductions for all benefits-eligible, non-bargaining staff.
Prior to that, the university asked all non-essential employees to use leave balances rather than working during the closure. The decision was met with harsh criticism from WMU’s faculty union and others in the community.
Also taking a pay cut are the university’s senior executives, including the university president and seven vice presidents, who each took a 10% salary cut. In addition, all associate and assistant vice presidents, associate provosts and vice provosts and deans will take a 5% pay reduction, the university said.
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The bureaucracy is the largest part of the entire entity.
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Same with the medical industry, compare total employees to those actually providing care to patients.
Try firing ALL bureaucrats there and cut faculty salaries by 50% (for starters), you pin-headed, over-”educated” nitwits.
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