Northland School has lower 9 school positions in its quest to downsize, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
“This troublesome, however important, step is a part of the varsity’s plan to considerably focus its curriculum and construction for the Fall 2024 tutorial yr and past,” the spokesperson stated by e mail.
Northland primarily based its choice on program wants, tenure and seniority amid a revamp of the faculty’s curriculum. Main the advice course of was the faculty’s faculty advert hoc committee on monetary exigency, which consulted with program administrators and Northland officers.
No extra employees or school reductions are deliberate at the moment, the spokesperson stated.
The layoffs observe an introduced downsizing and realignment on the Wisconsin-based personal liberal arts faculty. After warning that it would shut, Northland in April declared monetary exigency, a course of that enables faculties to remove tenured school in financially troublesome instances.
After elevating report — and what it referred to as “transformative” — presents and reviewing its packages in exigency, Northland unveiled a plan earlier this month to refocus aspherical eight tutorial packages, a lot of them targeted on outside and environmental fields.
With that downsizing, the faculty plans in the end to chop $7 million from its price range.
