Possible faculty member cuts at SIU | News

CARBDONALE, IL (KFVS)- Non-tenure
track faculty members received letters earlier this week warning them the
university might have to cut back on employees.

It's due to the school's
enrollment numbers and recent budget cuts.

According to the Assistant to
the Chancellor for Media Relations Rod Sievers, non-tenure track faculty
members get this type of letter every year around this time.

The problem is, no one knows
what the spring semester will bring.

Sievers says the letters go out
as a way for the university to let faculty members know that they may need to
make cuts.

The university
sent out similar letters in July 2012.

At that time, 16 non-tenured
faculty members got the letters along with 63 employees at the early childhood
program.

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