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UW Oshkosh staff and faculty, as well as community members and people from other UW System schools, participated in a walkout protest today over the university’s response to its $18 million deficit. The protesters criticized the university’s decision to lay off around 200 staff in the coming weeks and emphasized the effects that furloughs and...
UW Oshkosh is facing an $18 million structural deficit and is planning 200 non-faculty layoffs and additional furlough periods to cut expenses for the 2023-24 academic year. In an Aug. 3 email, Chancellor Andrew Leavitt described the state of UWO’s finances as “no longer sustainable for us to operate without dramatic reduction in expenses.” Declining...
UW-Oshkosh said it will begin intermittent furloughs and layoffs in order to reduce a projected 2023 structural deficit of up to $18 million.