Three-year program announced to fund strategic growth and address budget issues
@ORD_Buckeye: Any comments?The $40 million of expense reductions include the following:
- Eliminating 215 positions via a planned reduction in workforce. No faculty layoffs are occurring.
- Eliminating baseball.
- Eliminating non-academic programming in EJ Thomas Hall, except for rentals.
- Outsourcing dining services.
- Renegotiating healthcare plans.
- Increasing the cost share of retiree dependent coverage.
- Changing the University’s retire/rehire policy.
- Centralizing course scheduling.
- Reducing central costs, such as legal fees and University memberships.